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Dec 18, 2015 · There are actually two wars going on in Syria. First came the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Assad succeeded his father as authoritarian leader of Syria in 2000. He responded to ...
Aug 24, 2022 · The Syrian government has constantly expressed its opposition to the US role in Syria, and demanded US forces withdraw. Al-Assad’s main backer, Russia, has also called for the US to leave.
Apr 8, 2017 · President Donald Trump has ordered airstrikes on Syria as punishment for its chemical weapons attack last week in the town of Douma, which killed at least 42 people — including a number of ...
Christians in Syria made up about 10% of the pre-war Syrian population. [1] [2] The country's largest Christian denomination is the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch , [3] [4] closely followed by the Maronite Church and the Assyrian Church of the East ; [4] the cities of Damascus and Aleppo are believed to have the largest number of Christians in Syria .
Nov 26, 2014 · March 30, 1949 witnessed the first bloodless military coup in the history of Syria; a coup led by Brigadier General Husni al-Za’im, the Syrian army chief of staff. He succeeded in toppling the ...
Most of the Syrian population are Arab, or originally from the Arabian Peninsula and its neighboring territories. Minority groups living in the country include the Kurds, an ethnic group from a mountainous region called Kurdistan, who mostly live in northeast Syria; and the Bedouins, nomadic animal herders who move from place to place throughout North Africa and the Middle East.
Apr 4, 2024 · Iran, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Syria are allied against Israel and its key military and financial backer, the United States, along with armed and political groups in Iraq and Yemen in a so-called ...
