• Events from the year 2013 in Syria. President: Bashar al-Assad Vice President: Farouk al-Sharaa Najah al-Attar Prime Minister: Wael Nader al-Halqi For...
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    The Syrian civil war is an ongoing conflict in Syria that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime...
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    Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean...
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    Ba'athist Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), was the Syrian state between 1963 and 2024 under the one-party rule of the Syrian regional...
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    The January 2013 Rif Dimashq airstrike was an aerial attack in the Rif Dimashq Governorate of Syria, which targeted a convoy alleged to be carrying weapons...
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    and the Syrian Arab Republic were close strategic allies, and Iran provided significant support for the Syrian Ba'athist government in the Syrian civil...
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    officially intervened in the Syrian civil war with the stated aim of fighting the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS) militant organization in support of the international...
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    Christianity in Syria (Arabic: المسيحية في سوريا) has among the oldest Christian communities on Earth, dating back to the first century AD, and has been...
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    The 2012–2013 escalation of the Syrian Civil War refers to the third phase of the Syrian Civil War, which gradually escalated from a UN-mediated cease...
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    Iranian-Syrian relations refers to the diplomatic relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Republic. Official diplomatic relations...
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    out by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the early hours of 21 August 2013 in Ghouta, Syria during the Syrian civil war. Two opposition-controlled...
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    Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian civil war has been substantial since the beginning of armed insurgency phase of the Syrian civil war in 2011, and evolved...
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    September 2013, the United States and Russia announced an agreement for the elimination of Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles by June 2014. In October 2013, the...
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    Turkish-backed Syrian National Army as part of the ongoing Syrian civil war that began with the Syrian revolution in 2011. The capture of Syria's capital, Damascus...
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  • opposition rebel groups in the Syrian civil war founded on 29 July 2011 by Colonel Riad al-Asaad and six officers who defected from the Syrian Armed Forces. The...
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    Syrians (Arabic: سوريون) are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian...
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    Middle East and North Africa, including the Syrian civil war, the Iraqi insurgency and subsequent war in Iraq, the Egyptian Crisis, the Libyan crisis...
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  • Internet was cut off more than ten times in 2013, and again in March 2014. Access to online information in Ba'athist Syria was tightly controlled by cyber surveillance...
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    In 2013, the Syrian National Coalition formed the Syrian Interim Government (SIG), which operated first as a government-in-exile and, from 2015, in certain...
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    theater in the Syrian civil war, started after fighting erupted between the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist rebel factions in the city...
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  • timeline of the Syrian civil war from May to December 2013. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found at Casualties of the Syrian Civil War. The...
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    history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria. Throughout...
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    Islam are practised within Syria, who collectively constitute approximately 87% of the population and form a majority in most of the districts of the...
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    relations between Syria and the United States began in 1835 and continued until they were suspended in 2012 after the onset of the Syrian civil war. Priority...
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    involved themselves in the Syrian civil war (2011–present) as belligerents. The main groups were Ba'athist Syria and allies, the Syrian opposition and allies...
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  • been several instances of chemical weapons attacks during the Syrian Civil War, beginning in 2012, which were corroborated by national governments, the United...
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    The Syrian revolution was a series of mass protests and civilian uprisings throughout Syria – with a subsequent violent reaction by the Ba'athist regime...
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    The May 2013 Rif Dimashq airstrikes were a series of aerial attacks made on targets in Syria on 3 and 5 May 2013. The 3 May attack was on targets at Damascus...
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    and head of government of Syria. The president directs the executive branch and serves as the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Army and Armed Forces. The...
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    Christianity (10%) Druze (3%) Religion in Syria refers to the range of religions practiced by the citizens of Syria. Historically, the region has been a...
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