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Jun 9, 2021 · Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It has a total area of 185,180 square km. Damascus is its capital and largest city. Arabic is its official languages. Its official currency is Syrian pound (SYP). It is bordered by Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, and Jordan. It has high mountains, deserts, and fertile plains.
Located in the Middle East, Syria is approximately 1.5 times bigger than the state of Pennsylvania. Bordered on the east by the Mediterranean Sea, Syria also shares borders with the countries of Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon. More than half of Syria is covered by the Syrian Desert, which stretches into several other countries in the ...
Feb 14, 2023 · Syria’s Civil War: The Descent Into Horror. Twelve years after protesters in Syria first demonstrated against the four-decade rule of the Assad family, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been ...
Mar 11, 2016 · 11 March 2016. More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war ...
On April 18, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ratified a new cybercrimes law aimed at curbing the “misuse of technology,” and combatting “cybercrime” in the face of new technologies. The ...
Jun 29, 2023 · Some 6.8 million people are internally displaced in Syria. Syrians are facing an “ever worsening humanitarian crisis” amid the ongoing 12-year-long conflict, top UN officials told the Security Council on Thursday, as the General Assembly adopted a resolution to create a first-of-its-kind institution to address the issue of more than 100,000 ...
Sep 18, 2016 · Sept. 18, 2016. You could be forgiven, after five years of Syria’s war dominating front pages, for feeling lost. It is easy to track the war’s toll: It has killed 400,000 people, displaced ...
