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Syria is a country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.
(from CIA World Factbook)
range: 187,437 square kilometers
population: 21,563,800 (2022 estimate)
Median age: 23.5 years old
capital: Damascus
Ethnic Group: 50% Arab, 15% Alawite, 10% Kurdish, 10% Levant, 15% other
religion: Muslim 87% (Official; Sunni 74%, including Alawite, Ismaili, Shia 13%), Christian 10% (including Orthodox, Unity, Nestorian), Druze 3%
unemployment: 50% (2017 estimate)
1517-1918 – part of the Ottoman Empire.
1920- The League of Nations places Syria under French control.
April 17, 1946 – Independence is declared after the French army leaves the country.
1949-1958- A series of coups lead to instability in the country.
February 1, 1958 – Syria and Egypt merge to form the United Arab Republic.
September 28, 1961 – Syria secedes from the United Arab Republic.
1967- Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel in the Six Day War.
November 13, 1970 – Defense Minister Hafez Assad launches a bloodless coup.
1976-2005 – About 17,000 Syrian troops are stationed in neighboring Lebanon.
December 29, 1979 to present Syria appears US State Department State Sponsors of Terrorism List.
From June 10, 2000 Hafez al-Assad dies.
From July 10, 2000 Bashar al-Assad is elected president in a referendum with 97% of the vote. He was re-elected in 2007.
March 2011 to present Syrian civil war begins. Violence escalates in Dollar after a group of teenagers and children were arrested for writing political graffiti. Dozens of people are killed when security forces crack down on demonstrations. The United Nations estimates that more than 300,000 of her have died in Syria since the civil war began.
From June 3, 2014 Assad was re-elected, winning 88.7% of the vote in the country’s first election since the civil war broke out in 2011. The election has been criticized by opposition groups and many Western countries.
September 22-23, 2014 – US and allies launch airstrikes against ISIS targets for the first time in Syria.
From September 2015 Russia, which claims to target ISIS, has launched its first airstrikes in Syria.
From April 6, 2017 The United States has launched a military strike on a Syrian government air base in response to a chemical weapons attack on civilians days ago.
From October 26, 2017 a Joint report from the United Nations International chemical weapons inspectors have traced the Assad regime’s involvement in the April 2017 sarin attack that killed more than 80 people. Syria has repeatedly denied any connection to the attack and has denied possessing chemical weapons.
From April 13, 2018 The US, UK and France have launched attacks against targets at three sites in Syria following a week of threats of reprisals over suspected chemical weapons attacks on civilians in the Damascus enclave of Douma.
From March 23, 2019 The Syrian Democratic Forces announced that ISIS had lost its last stronghold in Syria, ending the so-called caliphate declared in 2014.
From October 6, 2019 The White House announced a major shift in US foreign policy. US forces in northern Syria withdraw ahead of a planned Turkish offensive against Kurdish forces that have been key US allies in the fight against ISIS.
October 9, 2019 – Turkey launches airstrikes and artillery strikes across the border and launches a planned military offensive into northeastern Syria. In the days that followed, reports continued of displaced people from the area and the possible escape of ISIS prisoners.
October 14, 2019 – Faced with a Turkish offensive, Kurdish forces struck a pact with the Syrian government that marked a sea change in the country’s eight-year war. As part of the new alliance, units of the Syrian Army have reportedly arrived in northern towns and will deploy troops across the Syrian-Turkish border. The next day, Russia admitted to brokering initial negotiations between Turkish and Kurdish forces.It also launched patrols of the line of contact between Syrian and Turkish forces, according to a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry.
From October 21, 2019 At a press conference in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said US troops in the south would remain in Syria to protect oil fields from ISIS. Other US forces withdraw from northern Syria. “Weeks, not days” 4 days later he repeats it “The United States will scale back its presence in Syria, deny ISIS access to oil revenues, and reposition for the next phase of its campaign to defeat ISIS.”
From October 22, 2019 President Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a shared 10-point agenda that will shape the end of the Syrian civil war. Putin said Russia and Turkey agreed to support Syria’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”. Kurdish fighters, once backed by the US, must withdraw from the towns of Manbij and Tal Rifaat.
From November 18, 2020 The Israeli military has launched a series of strikes against targets in Syria, including the site of Damascus International Airport, which is being used as Iran’s headquarters, after the discovery of improvised explosive devices installed on the Golan Heights, according to the Israeli Defense Forces. are doing
From November 14, 2021 The United States reported for the first time that several civilians, including women and children, were killed in a hitherto undisclosed airstrike in Syria in 2019, days before the fall of ISIS, according to U.S. Central Command. Admitted. The disclosure follows the release of a New York Times investigation into the strike.
