The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protest
Bombed out vehicles Aleppo
People's Defense Units defending Ras al Ayn against al Nusra Front terrorists
Combined Joint U.S., Turkey Patrols
Syrians celebrate the fall of Assad at the Umayyad mosque, 14 December 2024
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
Syrian civil war
…March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, which led to a series of defections, the emergence of…
Reconstructed sculpture of a bird from Tell Halaf
Ishqi-Mari, king of the Second Kingdom of Mari, circa 2300 BC
Antioch in Syria became the capital of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire in 240 BC