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President Al-Sharaa orders the dissolution of all armed groups in Syria, including the military and his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, as well as the Baath party and the constitution. [ 10 ] 31 January – The US military says it had killed Muhammad Salah al-Zabir, a senior operative of the al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din in an airstrike near Batabo in ...
Syria has been a diplomatic ally to Serbia on the Kosovo question. On 13 May 2009, Syria's ambassador to Serbia, Majed Shadoud, reported that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad told Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić that his country continues to oppose the recognition of the independence of Kosovo. [348]
The Daraa and As-Suwayda offensive (June 2015) (titled "The battle of the crushing of the tyrants" by the Southern Front) [25] was launched in eastern Daraa Governorate during the Syrian Civil War, by the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army and allied Islamic Front rebel group against government positions in and around the 52nd Mechanized Brigade base [24] (Liwa 52), [26] which housed an ...
The Syrian Interim Government (SIG) [a] was a government-in-exile and later a quasi-state in Syria formed on 18 March 2013 by the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (Syrian National Coalition, SNC), an umbrella opposition group, during the Syrian civil war.
Transport in Syria is possible by rail, road, air or rivers, both public and private. Syria is an Asian country with a well-developed rail network (2,052 km) and a highway system (782 km). Main international airport is the Damascus International Airport in the capital, Damascus .
[29] [30] [31] Iran and Syria are close strategic allies, as Iran sees the survival of the Assad government as being crucial to its regional interests. [31] [32] Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was reported to be vocally in favor of the Baathist government. [30] By December 2013, Iran was thought to have approximately 10,000 operatives in ...
On 2 November 2011, the Syrian government agreed to an Arab League peace plan to the effect that its army would no longer be deployed in violent crackdowns against peaceful demonstrators, [2] [3] tanks would be withdrawn from the cities, [2] [4] all political prisoners be released, [2] [4] a dialogue with the opposition begun within two weeks, [4] and Arab League and foreign media allowed to ...
Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by opposition activist groups, vary between 494,438 and about 606,000 as of June 2021. On 23 April 2016, the United Nations and Arab League Envoy to Syria put out an estimate of 400,000 that had died in the war.