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Syria, [h] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [i] [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.
11 June 2023 – A US Army CH-47 Chinook crashed in Syria, leaving 22 US servicemen with wounds of varying degrees. [ 251 ] 5 October 2023 – During an incident involving the United States and Turkey , a Turkish TAI Anka-S combat drone was shot down by a US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon over the skies of the city of Al-Hasaka .
Syrian Air Defence Forces stated they succeeded in shooting down 13 Turkish combat UAVs, including 7 Bayraktar TB2 and 6 TAI Anka. [59] On July 19, 2021, four F-16 fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force entered Syria’s airspace via the US-controlled al-Tanf zone and fired eight guided missiles at an area southeast of Syria’s Aleppo.
The Southern Operations Room (Arabic: غرفة العمليات الجنوبية, romanized: Ghurfat Aleamaliaat Aljanubia), abbreviated as SOR, is a Syrian rebel coalition consisting of various Syrian opposition groups and defectors that initially operated in the southern provinces of Daraa, Suwayda and Quneitra, though they expanded to Damascus, and Rif Dimashq (having withdrawn from ...
17 September – At least seven people are killed in Syria during simultaneous explosions of pagers used primarily by Hezbollah members in Syria and Lebanon. [40] 22 September – Three children are killed and a fourth child from the same family is injured, when a land mine in a plastic bag explodes near a park in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate. [41]
The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from November 2024. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found in casualties of the Syrian civil war.. On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Military Operations Command [1] led by Islamist Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a lightning offensive [2] against pro-government Syrian Arab Army (SAA ...
In the aftermath of this reversal, violent attacks against French forces took place and the Syrian Congress assembled in March 1920 to declare Faisal the king of Syria as well as to officially set up the Arab Kingdom of Syria with Hashim al-Atassi as Prime Minister and Yusuf al-'Azma as Minister of War and Chief of Staff.
1958–1961: Syria joined with the Republic of Egypt in forming the United Arab Republic. 1961–1963: Syria withdrew from the union in 1961 and adopted the name Syrian Arab Republic . Ba'athist Syria , 1963–2024: The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region came to power in a coup d'état , which laid the foundations for the political ...