Syria, [d] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [e] [15] 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 …

Dec 9, 2024 · Syrian and Russian jets targeted rebels in Aleppo and Idlib but opposition forces seized a second major city of Hama and quickly advanced on Homs – the gateway to the capital Damascus.

Feb 13, 2025 · Long-suppressed internal tensions led to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. Assad’s brutal response to the civil war failed to keep him in power and, after a tremendous amount of death and destruction, he was finally deposed in December 2024.

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state and non-state actors. The Syrian Revolution began in March 2011 when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in ...

Syrians (Arabic: سوريون) are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, who have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years.

Feb 7, 2023 · Syria is a Western Asian country located in Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. It is bordered by five Asian Nations: Turkey in the north, Lebanon in the west, Iraq in the east, Jordan in the south and Israel in the southwest. Located to the west is the Mediterranean Sea, which stretches along the entire Syrian coastline.

Nov 30, 2024 · Fearing Syria would become a permanent terror hotbed, an international coalition led by the US stepped in with a focus on eliminating the group but without confronting the Syrian regime.

1 day ago · Syrian-American Rabbi Yusuf Hamra visits a synagogue destroyed during the war at the Jobar district in the outskirts of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago as part of a delegation organized by the Syrian Emergency Task ...

Jan 29, 2025 · The Syrian Civil War began in 2011 after pro-democracy protests swept through Syria during the Arab Spring, threatening the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. His violent suppression of protesters escalated into war between Assad’s forces and opposition militias.

Feb 10, 2025 · Syrian whistleblower “Caesar” has revealed his identity to the world in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera.