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Background. Tahrir al-Sham was formed by five Salafist rebel groups in Syria, including the al-Nusra Front and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, on 28 January 2017.
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He entered the military academy, taking charge of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon in 1998. Political scientists have characterized the Assad family's rule of Syria as a personalist dictatorship. On 17 July 2000, Assad became President, succeeding his father, who died in office a month prior.
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From 21–26 December 2014, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Syrian regime dropped 193 barrel bombs across Syria.
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Ahed Tamimi. Ahed Tamimi (Arabic: عهد التميمي‎ 'Ahad at-Tamīmī, also Romanized Ahd; born 31 January 2001) is a Palestinian activist from the village of Nabi Salih in the occupied West Bank in the Palestinian territories. She is best known for appearances in images and videos in which she confronts Israeli soldiers.
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Today, on 14 October 2013, the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force for the Syrian Arab Republic, making it the 190th State Party to the treaty. Syria deposited its instrument of accession with the United Nations Secretary-General on 14 September.
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Syria is a state party to the NPT since 1969 and has a limited civil nuclear program.
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Since the onset of the Syrian Civil War, the airport and the road leading to it have been closed intermittently and most international airlines have ceased flights. Several airlines such as Emirates and EgyptAir with former regular service to Damascus have cancelled their flights to Damascus.
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In November 2015, the Obama administration began the deployment of U.S. special forces to Syria, on the mission of assisting rebel forces in their fight against ISIL, President Obama then ordered several dozen Special Operations troops into Rojava in northern Syria to assist local fighters battling ISIL, authorizing ...
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President Bashar al-Assad's family and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party have remained dominant forces in the country's politics since a 1970 coup. Until the early stages of the Syrian uprising, the president had broad and unchecked decree authority under a long-standing state of emergency.
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Syria is the only significant crude oil producing country in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories. According to the Oil and Gas Journal, Syria had 2,500,000,000 barrels (400,000,000 m3) of petroleum reserves as of 1 January 2010.
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The Syrian civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية السورية‎, al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah as-sūrīyah) is an ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the ...
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Tahrir al-Sham was formed by five Salafist rebel groups in Syria, including the al-Nusra Front and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, on 28 January 2017.
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Hezbollah has helped the Syrian Ba'ath government during the Syrian civil war in its fight against the Syrian opposition, which Hezbollah has described as a "plot to destroy its alliance with al-Assad against Israel". ... In August 2012, the United States sanctioned Hezbollah for its alleged role in the war.
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Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War. 20 captured. Turkey has been diplomatically and militarily involved in the Syrian Civil War since its outbreak in 2011.
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During a 1979 border conflict between the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the United States cooperated with Saudi Arabia to greatly expand the security assistance program to the YAR by providing F-5 aircraft, tanks, vehicles and training. George H.W.
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By the end of August, the UN estimated 6.5 million people had been displaced within Syria, while more than 3 million had fled to countries such as Lebanon (1.1 million), Jordan (600,000) and Turkey (800,000).
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Turkey said the operation was an act of self-defence, in response to Isis shelling of Turkish border towns and suicide bombings and attacks targeting Turkish nationals. Also, the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, said that YPG (Kurds) should return east of Syria's Euphrates River.