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Syria

Coordinates: 35°N 38°E / 35°N 38°E / 35; 38

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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Tracking Missed Yazidis Increasingly Harder Six Years After IS Genocide

Voa News 08 Aug 2020

He said that locating and smuggling out the missing Yazidis is becoming more difficult, especially as they seem to be scattered across conflict areas of Syria to as far as Turkey ... His first mission in 2017 involved freeing an 8-year-old Yazidi girl from northwestern Syria under the al-Qaeda offshoot the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group....

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Former Army Delta Force officer, US ambassador sign secretive contract to develop Syrian oil fields

News-Press Now 06 Aug 2020

Moscow slammed the news of the Delta Crescent Energy deal, with the Russian embassy in Canada tweeting "under the guise of democracy and liberty (aka free market) western countries continue to plunder #Syria's natural resources." ... Cain and Reese bonded and began discussing deeper ramifications of US policy in the Middle East, particularly in Syria....

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Lebanon: Angry and helpless citizens speak their minds

Gulf News 04 Aug 2020

A combination of subsequent mass demonstrations and international pressure force Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon. Lebanese Shi’ite allies of Damascus stage their own big rallies in support of Syria. Lebanon enters a new era free of Syrian domination....

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Iran reaps the rewards of Saddam’s 1990 Kuwait invasion

Arab News 03 Aug 2020

When Saddam’s regime fell like a dead branch in 2003, the Islamic Republic remained as a dominant regional force, free to spread its tentacles into Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain and beyond ... When the hateful regimes of Saddam, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, Syria’s Bashar Assad and ......

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Turkish forces "neutralize" 6 PKK/YPG members in Iraq, Syria: ministry

Xinhua 30 Jul 2020

The Turkish army launched Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016, Operation Olive Branch in 2018, Operation Peace Spring in 2019, and Operation Spring Shield in 2020 in northern Syria in order to create a YPG-free zone along its border within the neighboring country....

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Turkey detains 3 Kurdish fighters in northern Syria: defense ministry

Xinhua 29 Jul 2020

Seeing the YPG as the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016, Operation Olive Branch in 2018, Operation Peace Spring in 2019, and Operation Spring Shield in 2020 in northern Syria to create a YPG-free zone ......

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RIF Trust: Securing a second passport in a post-pandemic world without leaving home

Gulf News 29 Jul 2020

Many UAE expatriates from neighbouring countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, India, Pakistan and Africa holding “weaker passports” with limited visa-free travel were caught off guard as they were unable to obtain travel visas with consulates closed....

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Rami Makhlouf: Syria uses front companies to dodge sanctions

The National 27 Jul 2020

A public rift in Syria's ruling family has escalated with more revelations by President Bashar Al Assad’s estranged cousin about the elaborate structure the regime uses to hide its wealth and evade European and US sanctions ... Syria cuts duty free contracts for Assad's tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf....

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Rami Makhlouf: Syria uses offshore companies to dodge sanctions

The National 27 Jul 2020

Read More. Rami Makhlouf ... Syria cuts duty free contracts for Assad's tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf ... The US enacted sweeping sanctions on Syria last month known as the Caesar Act targeting new lists of individuals and companies who support Mr Al Assad’s government, among them entities owned by Mr Makhlouf. ....

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Syrian forces use scorched earth policy in newly recaptured Idlib

The National 27 Jul 2020

Syria cuts duty free contracts for Assad's tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf ... Idlib is the last rebel stronghold in Syria, and about half of its three million population has been displaced at least once from other parts of the country ... civilians from the rest of Syria,” he said....

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July is the month for coups

Middle East Monitor 27 Jul 2020

These forces overthrew Egypt’s 2011 January Revolution, thus derailing all of the other revolutions in Syria, Yemen and Libya and destroying the Arab dream for a dignified life free of their oppressive rulers....

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First suspected coronavirus case in sprawling Syrian displacement camp

Kurdistan Media 26 Jul 2020

Although after the region has until recently been free of known infections, the local Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria (AANES) on Thursday confirmed four new coronavirus cases ... So far, only one person has died from the virus in northeast Syria ... northeast Syria....

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End U.S. ‘Domination’ of Middle East and Get Out

Information Clearing House 25 Jul 2020

see Syria and Iraq. While there is a legitimate interest in keeping Americans safe and maintaining the free flow of commerce, the scholars write, the U.S ... We need to normalize relations with Iran, get out of Yemen, end attempts at regime change in Syria, and stop condoning the bad behavior of our so called friends, like Saudi Arabia.  ... ....