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Syria
Coordinates: 35°N 38°E / 35°N 38°E
Syria (
i/ˈsɪ.rɪə/; Arabic: سوريا or سورية, Sūriyā or Sūrīyah), officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia. De jure Syrian territory borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest, but the government's control now extends to approximately 30–40% of the de jure state area and less than 60% of the population.
A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including Syrian Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians,Mandeans and Turks. Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, and Yazidis. Sunni Arabs make up the largest population group in Syria.
In English, the name "Syria" was formerly synonymous with the Levant (known in Arabic as al-Sham), while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. Its capital Damascus is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt.
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Turkey gives German tanks to jihadists
Free West Media 07 Dec 2019
Turkey has given its allies, the so-called rebels in Syria, advanced German-made tanks ... According to Bild, the Turkish military transferred an unknown number of Leopard 2 tanks to the Syrian National Army (SNA), which since 2017 is the name of what can be simplistically called the Turkish-supported part of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)....
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‘People are flushing toilets 10 times’: Trump mulls pouring conservation rules down the drain & ...
Russia Today 07 Dec 2019
President Donald Trump is taking aim at water efficiency laws, arguing that they paradoxically encourage waste due to weak water pressure ... Eating 40lbs of hydrogenated fat daily and flushing 15 times a day is not out of the realms of imagination #toiletgate pic.twitter.com/PUeN24P6NB— Free Syria Media Hub (@Free_Media_Hub) December 7, 2019....
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Albany Democrat Herald
06 Dec 2019
GOP senator bows to White House on Armenian genocide measure
Albany Democrat Herald
06 Dec 2019
FILE - In this April 11, 2019, file photo Sen ... 5. J. Scott Applewhite ... North Dakota Sen ... Turkey is a NATO member ... Cramer is the third GOP senator to block the resolution, which the House passed overwhelmingly in October in what was widely seen as a rebuke to Turkey in the wake of its invasion of northern Syria. ×. Register for more free articles ... Sen....
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Colorado Politics
05 Dec 2019
SLOAN | Impeachment's implications for Cory Gardner? Maybe not so much
Colorado Politics
05 Dec 2019
Kelly Sloan ... In Colorado, the majority of such meditations have focused on U.S. Sen ... U.S. Sen. Gardner has famously refused to be a sycophant of Trump’s since day one, and on some pretty important issues on which he has happened to not only be right — North Korea, Russia, Syria, free trade — but in opposition to the president from the right ... .......
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Colorado Politics
05 Dec 2019
OPINION | Impeachment's implications for Cory Gardner? Maybe not so much
Colorado Politics
05 Dec 2019
Kelly Sloan ... In Colorado, the majority of such meditations have focused on U.S. Sen ... U.S. Sen. Gardner has famously refused to be a sycophant of Trump’s since day one, and on some pretty important issues on which he has happened to not only be right — North Korea, Russia, Syria, free trade — but in opposition to the president from the right ... .......
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To survive another 70 years, Nato must renew its sense of common purpose
The National 05 Dec 2019
Read More from Con Coughlin ... The main cause of the tensions between Mr Macron and Mr Trump in London stemmed from the American president’s decision in October to allow the Turks free rein to invade northern Syria at the expense of the Syrian Kurds, who have been close allies of the US-led coalition in the fight against ISIS ... Updated ... SHARE. ....
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Iran Is Losing Iraq’s Tribes
The Washington Institute 04 Dec 2019
For instance, some Shammar Shia became leaders in the most staunchly sectarian Iranian militias; some Sunni Shammar joined the Islamic State; other Sunnis joined anti-IS militias; and some shifted from supporting Free Syrian Army rebel factions in Syria to backing more tribally ......
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Garry Kasparov: I lived in the post-truth Soviet world and I hear its echoes in ...
CNN 04 Dec 2019
(CNN)The totalitarian Soviet Union where I grew up tried to dominate the truth, to distort it and control it ... Garry Kasparov ... Read More ... There is no good or evil, just business as usual with no place for moral arguments over Chinese concentration camps or Russia bombing hospitals in Syria. Get our free weekly newsletter ... Join us on Twitter and Facebook....
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Elko Daily Free Press
02 Dec 2019
Syrian pound at new low as crisis roils neighboring Lebanon
Elko Daily Free Press
02 Dec 2019
FILE - In this July 24, 2019 file photo, a man stands in front of an ATM machine outside a branch of the International Bank for Trade and Finance, in Damascus, Syria ... For decades, Lebanon with its open market economy and free banking has served as Syria’s main economic and financial gateway to the world ... You have free articles remaining....
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Trump Jr. Rips Brits For Freeing Terrorist; Critics Say His Dad Enabled 100s More To Escape
Yahoo Daily News 02 Dec 2019
Without American protection, the Kurds were vulnerable to Turkey, which invaded northern Syria immediately after the U.S ... Didn't your dad just do this in Syria? And I also remember some comment from him like, "if ISIS fighters being held by Kurdish forces manage to get free, “they’re going to be escaping to Europe,” ....
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A wake-up call for NATO
The Jerusalem Post 01 Dec 2019
As the Free Syrian Army (now renamed the Syrian National Army), they have fought alongside the Turkish Army in the invasion and occupation of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, and now in Operation Peace Spring in Syria’s northeast ... Turkey’s incursions into Syria have had a double function....
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Syria: Russian helping hand
Frontline 29 Nov 2019
The much-advertised Turkish onslaught along the border with Syria in mid October ended just a few days after it began ... troops from Syria, tried to placate his growing number of critics by despatching Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with the Turkish President urgently ... to illegally hold on to Syria’s oil....
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