Syria

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SYRIA

Syria is a country in the Middle East, bordering 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.

Ahlan Wa Sahlan!! (Language of Syria)

ETYMOLOGY . . . The name Syria is derived from the ancient Greek name for Syrians: Σύριοι, Sýrioi, or Σύροι, Sýroi. 1. How many people died in Syria? United Nations (UN) allocates over 7.500 people have been killed since the anti-Assad. Mortality rate actually difficult to obtain because the amount given by various sources is totally different. However, two sets of main activists, Human Rights Watch Center based in Britain actually put the figure at more than 8,000 people.

protests across the country recommended collection of activists in the country. The anti-Assad movement initially take

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place safely but ended after troops exchanged vicious act using force.

3. Why do they oppose the Assad regime? Resurrection of the people was not only against the government but the Assad dynasty.

2. Who are the rebels in the country? Set of rebels in Syria are not arranged in an orderly, he composed rather than Force Free

His father, Hafez Assad contribute famous for his cruelty towards political uprising. In 1982, Assad's father had suppressed the

Syria Army (FSA) and a unified set differed only

rebellion waged by the Muslim Brotherhood in

to topple the Assad regime.

Hama airport, causing about 20,000 people

She participated along with tens of

dead.

thousands of people who never gave up holding

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It was not until the year 1967, when instability in the Middle East was great, that Syria won its independence as a nation free from any empire’s grasp.


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