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The capital of this Empire (founded in 312 BCE) was situated at Antioch, then a part of historical Syria, but just inside the Turkish border today as well. A series of six wars, Syrian Wars , were fought between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt , during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE over the region then called Coele-Syria , one of the few avenues into Egypt.
Nov 26, 2023 · Updated 10:34 AM PDT, November 26, 2023. BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike Sunday hit the international airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus and put it out of commission, Syrian state media said. Israel has struck Syria’s Damascus and Aleppo international airports several times since the onset of the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza on Oct. 7.
Syria is a country in the Middle East, the west part of Asia. ... Syria's national capital is Damascus. The biggest city is Aleppo. The Syrian civil war began in 2011.
Jul 10, 2017 · Damascus eventually became the capital of the Islamic world, but was replaced by Baghdad in Iraq around 750 A.D. ... Syria joined with Egypt and became the United Arab Republic in 1958, but the ...
Mar 15, 2021 · Raqqa, situated on the Euphrates River in Syria’s north, was the first governorate capital to fall under opposition control after the start of the Syrian uprising in 2011.
Feb 19, 2023 · At least five people have been killed and 15 wounded in Israeli air strikes on Syria’s capital that have heavily damaged residential buildings. The raids early on Sunday hit a building in ...
Syria is a unitary multiparty republic with one legislative house; its head of state and government is the president, who by law must be a Muslim. The legal system is based largely on Islamic law. The area now included within the Syrian republic has been inhabited for several thousand years.
