Syrian Americans
Overview
Modern Syria is an Arab republic of southwest Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and by Israel and Lebanon to the sou...
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Syria
Syrian Arab Republic
Al-Jumhuriyah al-'Arabiyah as-Suriyah
CAPITAL: Damascus (Dimashq)
FLAG: The national flag is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black stripes; in the white cent...
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Syria
The Syrian Arab Republic is located in the Fertile Crescent, the agricultural heartland of the ancient Near East. It is bordered on the west by Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea, on the north by...
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POPULATION 17,155,814SUNNI MUSLIM 74 percentALAWITE 12 percentCHRISTIAN 10 percentDRUZE 3 percentOTHER 1 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Syrian Arab Republic comprises only a smal...
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Area: 185,180 sq km (71,498 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 18,542,000 (excluding 800,000 Iraqi refugees in late 2006)Capital:
Damascus
Head of state and government:
President
Bashar
al-Assad
, as...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out Thursday at unspecified enemies of the troubled Middle East, warning them to abandon their "hostile plans."During a one-day trip to Damascus, Ahmadi...
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Israel and Syria have reached understandings on a future peace deal between the two countries following a series of secret talks between its representatives, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Tues...
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Axis Of Evil: North Korea may be supplying nuclear equipment to Syria. Another terrorist state following Iran in seeking nuclear weapons should remind Americans we are in a long war of global scope...
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A Syrian court sentenced four pro-democracy campaigners, including one of Syria's most respected writers, to prison terms Sunday as part of President's Bashar Assad's latest crack down on dissent."...
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Damascus on Tuesday denounced a U.S. decision to impose sanctions against two Syrian officials as a "pathetic" move by an American administration struggling with a failed Mideast policy.The condemn...
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Syria, home to as many as 1.5 million Iraqi refugees, has decided to require visas for Iraqis entering the country for economic, trade and educational purposes, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Thur...
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Afraid of proposed new visa restrictions, Iraqis flooded into Syria at 10 times their normal numbers earlier this month until the measures were postponed, a Syrian customs official said Thursday.Mo...
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