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A Syrian child sits outside her family's tent at a refugee camp outside the village of Miniara, northern Akkar region near the border with Syria, Lebanon, May 20, 2024. (AFP Photo) Türkiye on Thursday argued the world shouldn’t be distracted from the deadlock in Syria while other crises take prominence. "The rise of other large-scale crises ...
16 hours ago · Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub [a] ( c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, [b] was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.
16 hours ago · EAGLE PASS, Texas - Dozens of undocumented immigrants were arrested for criminal trespassing. Among them were five people from Syria. Crisis at the Border. We toured the new command post west of ...
16 hours ago · Fatimid control in Syria was threatened during the 1020s. In Aleppo, Fatāk, who had declared his independence, was killed and replaced in 1022, but this opened the way for a coalition of Bedouin chiefs from the Banu Kilab, Jarrahids, and Banu Kalb led by Salih ibn Mirdas to take the city in 1024 or 1025 and to begin imposing their control on the rest of Syria.
16 hours ago · Syria was the sole negative vote; the United States, Argentina, Colombia, the Soviet Union, and the Ukrainian SSR voted in favour; and Belgium, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, and France abstained. Israel's application was renewed in 1949 after the first Israeli election.
16 hours ago · Syria's emergence as the metropolis of the Umayyad Caliphate was the result of Mu'awiya's twenty-year entrenchment in the province, the geographic distribution of its relatively large Arab population throughout the province in contrast to their seclusion in garrison cities in other provinces, and the domination of a single tribal confederation, the Kalb-led Quda'a, as opposed to the wide array of competing tribal groups in Iraq.
16 hours ago · While little is known of the city from the Hellenistic period, Mosul likely belonged to the Seleucid satrapy of Syria, the Greek term for Assyria ("Syria" originally meaning Assyria rather than the modern nation of Syria), which the Parthian Empire conquered circa 150 BC. [citation needed]
