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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.
Cries from Syria is a 2017 documentary film about the Syrian Civil War, directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, and acquired by HBO. [1] It contains video shot by Syrians with and interviews with guerrilla fighters, activists, journalists, defected military men, and refugees, some that are children.
Syrian TV (Arabic: السورية), also known as Syrian Satellite Channel (Arabic: القناة الفضائية السورية), is a public television channel, formerly state-funded by the Syrian General Organization of Radio and TV and broadcast nationwide on Digital terrestrial television (DTT) and throughout the world on various satellites.
This is a list of wars involving Syria since independence, including periods of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920), Mandatory Syrian Republic (1930–1946), Second Syrian Republic (1946–1958, 1961–1963), United Arab Republic (1958–1961), Ba'athist Syria (1963–2024), and Syria (2024–present).
Syria had been on Reporters Without Borders' Enemy of the Internet list since 2006 when the list was established. [11] In 2009, the committee to Protect Journalists named Syria number three in a list of the ten worst countries in which to be a blogger, given the arrests, harassment, and restrictions which online writers in Syria faced. [12]
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.
Syria responded using its air defense systems, and its state media aired a video purporting to show a successful missile interception. [72] The Syrian state news agency SANA and Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military said Syria used Russian and Soviet air defense systems Pantsir-S1, S-125, S-200, Buk, and Kvadrat. [54] [73] [74]
Flag of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920) Flag of Syria under French mandate (1920-1922) Flag of the Syrian Federation, later State of Syria under French mandate (1922-1925 and 1925-1930) Flag of the Syrian Republic (1932-1958), and again from 1961 to 1963 Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1961) and again of the Arab Republic of Syria from 1980 to 2024 Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic 1963 ...