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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north and northwe
Reconstructed sculpture of a bird from Tell Halaf
Ishqi-Mari, king of the Second Kingdom of Mari, circa 2300 BC
Amrit Phoenician Temple
Antioch in Syria became the capital of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire in 240 BC
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
Syria
…Turkey to the north and northwest, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. It is a republic under a provisional government and comprises 14 governorates. Damascus is Syria's capital and largest city. With a population of 26 million across an area of 185,180 square kilometres…
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