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Syria, [g] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [h] [16] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.
The politics of Syria is currently in a transitional period led by the Syrian transitional government. The seat of the government is located in Damascus , Syria . The previous government consisted of a President , a Prime Minister , and a legislative council with 250 seats.
On 24 February 2015, president Erdogan speaking on television of the tentative plan for a cessation of hostilities in Syria announced by Russia and the US two days prior, accused the UN, the West, Russia and Iran of seeking to further their own interests in Syria and said he feared a U.S.-Russian ceasefire plan would do little more than benefit ...
In a Paris court on Thursday, Bethany Haines, 27, read out the last text message she would ever receive from her father, David Haines, before ISIS abducted him in north Syria at age 42.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli invasion of Syria (2024–present) Part of the Syrian civil war, the Middle Eastern crisis, the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war in Syria and the Arab–Israeli conflict Top: Invading Israeli ...
“Hello from Free Syria. I’m in Damascus right now. It’s a beautiful winter. Everything is better than before,” Ayoub Alsmadi, founder of Syria Scope Travel, told CNN Travel. “Everyone is ...
Syria has an honorary consulates in Sydney [275] and Melbourne. [276] Australia is accredited to Syria from its embassy in Beirut. An Australian embassy was opened in Damascus in 1977. Syria opened an embassy in Canberra in the early 2000s. Until the start of the current Syrian civil war in 2011, the two countries enjoyed good relations.
Bashar al-Assad, Syrian President from 2000 to 2024. The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing international armed conflict taking place in Syria. [24] The unrest began in the early spring of 2011 within the context of Arab Spring protests, with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, whose forces responded with violent crackdowns.