History of Syria
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The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and in the region of Syria. The territory of the Syrian Arab Republic was occupied and ruled by several e
Female figurine, Syria, 5000 BCE
The ancient city of Ugarit
Coin of Bambyce, c. 340–332 BC
The Ancient city of Apamea, Syria, one of Syria's most important commercial centres in Hellenistic times
The Syrian transitional government is the current provisional government of Syria. It was established on 29 March 2025 under President Ahmed al-Sharaa, and succeeded the Syrian caretaker government he
History of Syria
…Party, with the Assad family exclusively in power since 1971. Following the fall of the Assad regime, Syria entered a political transition under the transitional government on 29 March 2025. The oldest remains found in Syria date from the Palaeolithic era (c.800,000 BCE). On 23 August 1993, a joint Japan-Syria excavation…
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the Syrian transitional government
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (right) with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 12 January 2025
President of the European Council, António Costa (left), with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Emergency Summit of the League of Arab States on Gaza, 3 March 2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Syrian President al-Sharaa during the COP30 summit in Brazil, 7 November 2025