
	Where results make sense

Topic: Military of Syria

Related Topics

Syrian Air Force

Foreign relations of Syria

Syrian

Military of Lebanon

Syria

History of Syria

Military of Egypt

Military of Saudi Arabia

Military of Iran

Economy of Syria

Politics of Syria

Military of Israel

Arab Socialist Resurrection Party

President of Syria

Al Ladhiqiyah

In the News (Tue 8 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	A brief history of Syria
		Syria fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1516 and remained a part of their Ottoman Empire for four centuries.
		Syria soon found itself fighting US and Israel together; and with the fighting on the Egyptian front ceased, the Syrians were forced to accepted the UN call for a cease-fire.
		Syria participated in the US-led international coalition that was formed to defend Saudi Arabia and liberate Kuwait.
	www.damascus-online.com /history/brief.htm (1730 words)

	Wikinfo \| Syria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With the expansion of Islam in the Middle East in the 7th century, Syria became one of the centres of the new religion.
		As of 2003, Syria is regarded by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism.
		Syria consists mostly of arid plateau, although there is a small strip with plain along the coast line with the Mediterranean.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Syria (674 words)

	Syria - Overview
		The military is a conscripted force; males serve 30 months in the military upon reaching the age of 18.
		Syria received significant financial aid from Gulf Arab states as a result of its participation in the Gulf War, with a sizable portion of these funds earmarked for military spending.
		Syria was a key to the Palestinian problem and to any resolution of the Arab-Israeli dispute; it was also at the vortex of the Lebanese situation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/syria/overview.htm (2466 words)

	Syria - Syrian Arab Army
		Military service has given most recruits the opportunity to improve their health and, because they receive technical training during most of their active duty, to leave the service with a marketable skill.
		Syria was also reported to have begun producing its own chemical weapons, including nerve gases, with the capability to use the chemical agents in missile warheads.
		Syria has a significant quantity of armor numbering some 4,700 tanks, though 1,200 are placed in static defensive positions and another 2,000 are T-55s and T-62s.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/syria/army.htm (1588 words)

	"Syria and Terrorism" by Boaz Ganor
		Though Syria's main involvement in terrorist activity around the world is indirect, through numerous subordinate terrorist organizations, in some cases it is not averse to carrying out terrorist attacks directly, using Syrian operatives, military facilities and embassies throughout the world.
		Syria's ambition is to grasp the stick from both ends, and so be aligned with two blocs at the same time: the bloc of Arab states that are participating in the conference, and the bloc of countries that oppose it.
		Syria, which sent to the Madrid Conference not only the Syrian delegation but also the Lebanese delegation (as the Lebanese government has been a Syrian puppet-government ever since the 1989 Taif Agreement), assured itself of control over the negotiation process, and a kind of veto over any progress made towards a compromise with Israel.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/saa26.htm (4204 words)

	[No title]
		Eastern Syria is largely covered by desert, while northern Syria is intersected by the Euphrates River, which runs from Turkey to Iraq, and two additional large rivers which run from Turkey into the Euphrates.
		300 kilometers of the Al-Jazeera Heights, spanning northeast from the Euphrates to the Upper Tigris, belong to Syria.
		Syria’s desperate economic situation results from the country’s inability to achieve economic growth commensurate with its population growth rate.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3285832,00.html (1386 words)

	USATODAY.com - Syria cuts military cooperation with U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The United States accuses Syria of facilitating the Iraqi insurgency across its borders, claiming Syria is not doing enough to stop the flow of foreign fighters and funds into Iraq.
		Syria denies the accusations, saying it is doing everything it can to control the long, porous border with Iraq.
		A senior U.S. military official said earlier this month that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, met with his lieutenants in Syria last month and ordered an increase in attacks in Iraq to follow the installation of the newly elected Iraqi government.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-24-syria-us_x.htm?csp=34 (536 words)

	Syria Stops Cooperating With U.S. Forces and C.I.A. - New York Times
		One senior military officer said those communications had been helpful in mitigating a number of "cross-border firings" of artillery that have occurred between Syrian forces and the American-led military in Iraq.
		But the ambassador said Syria had jailed some 1,200 foreign fighters who sought to enter Iraq from Syria, and had returned scores of others to their home countries.
		Syria's last soldier in Lebanon crossed the border on April 26, ending a 29-year military presence that was the key to Damascus's control of Lebanon.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/05/24/politics/24syria.html?ei=5088&en=7586e6aaef210e45&ex=1274587200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print (938 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Syria's ebbing military power
		Syria's army, navy and air force are seriously out of date - their mainly Soviet supplied equipment is badly in need of modernisation.
		Syria's economic weakness meant that its efforts from the late 1970's to establish strategic parity with Israel were doomed to failure.
		Syria's purchases are likely to be carefully chosen to maximise its capabilities in areas of known weakness like air defence, but also to bolster those arms - like its long-range missile forces - that can in some sense compensate for the overwhelming superiority of Israeli air power.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/788180.stm (386 words)

	Military of Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The military is a conscripted force; males serve 24 months in the military upon reaching the age of 18.
		Syria received significant financial aid from Persian Gulf Arab states as a result of its participation in the Persian Gulf War, with a sizable portion of these funds earmarked for military spending.
		The 1950s saw Syria and Egypt attempt to unify as the United Arab Republic, this was reflected in the Syrian Air Force with growth in personnel and aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Syria (1171 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: Syria: Missile Overview
		Syria's earliest known efforts to acquire a ballistic missile capability began after the country's 1973 war against neighboring Israel wherein Syria's inaccurate long-range artillery rocket systems were shown to perform poorly in combat.
		Syria's longtime military benefactor, the Soviet Union, was unable to provide the more advanced, longer-range systems that Syria sought in order to attain the capability to strike various points in Israel from deep within Syrian territory.
		Syria conducted flight tests of the Scud-C in late July 1991, and the missiles were believed to have become operational in Syria in 1992.
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Syria/Missile/index.html (3562 words)

	Syria (05/07)
		Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
		Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt.
		Syria's military remains one of the largest in the region, although the breakup of the Soviet Union--long the principal source of training, material, and credit for the Syrian forces--slowed Syria's ability to acquire modern military equipment.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3580.htm (7381 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : Syria severs military cooperation with U.S. - NYT
		Moustapha said he believed the Bush administration had decided "to escalate the situation with Syria" despite steps the Syrians have taken against insurgents in Iraq, and despite the recent withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon, in response to international demands.
		Relations between Syria and the United States have been strained for months, and some Bush administration officials said Syria's level of cooperation had been dwindling even before the latest move to halt cooperation.
		Bush administration officials said Syria's stance has prompted intense debate at high levels in the administration about new steps that might be taken against the Syrian government, The Times reported.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=2756 (352 words)

	Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the Road to Damascus and joined the first organized Christian Church in Antioch in ancient Syria (now in Turkey), from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
		But Syria, the country that pushed hardest for war, considered itself the beating heart of Arabism, and was the last to sign an armistice with Israel, was perhaps hardest hit by the pervasive sense of popular disappointment and the belief among the military that its leadership had failed and let them down.
		Syria consists mostly of arid plateau, although the northwest part of the country bordering the Mediterranean is fairly green.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syria (8526 words)

	"The Military-Intelligence Shakeup in Syria" (February 2002)
		On the other hand, with rumors circulating that additional purges of the upper and middle echelons of the military and security agencies will be undertaken later this year, remaining members of the Old Guard may decide to strike before personnel changes eliminate their ability to mobilize support for a putsch.
		Although Damascus has cancelled several military contracts in recent years for lack of funding, it is expected that much of the new revenue Syria has derived from imports of Iraqi oil since the Fall of 2000 will be allocated to the military.
		Born in Aleppo in 1935, Turkmani enrolled in the military academy in 1954 and graduated as a field artillery lieutenant.
	www.meib.org /articles/0202_s1.htm (1613 words)

	How strong is the Syrian military? - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Syria is now believed to have several thousand chemical bombs, packed mainly with sarin, as well as 50-100 chemically tipped ballistic missiles, mainly Soviet-built SS-21s and Scuds.
		In any case, it is no coincidence that the lab chiefs at Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center, which runs the country's weapons-of-mass-production program, have been holding their first air-raid drills lately.
		Syria may also be squeezed with respect to its chemical weapons arsenal, but lacking oil resources of its own the Syrian government can be squeezed harder with economic sanctions than Iraq's could.
	slate.msn.com /id/2081578 (2049 words)

	USATODAY.com - Syria boosts security along Iraq border (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AL-HERI, Syria (AP) — Syria has increased military posts and patrols along its border with Iraq and stopped thousands of infiltrators from entering into the war-torn country, a top military officer said Friday.
		Syria has also caught 1,400 infiltrators from "Arab, Islamic and other identities" and most have been returned to their countries, he said.
		The report accused Syria of refusing to cooperate with his inquiry.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-10-28-syria-border_x.htm (350 words)

	Institute for Contemporary Affairs - Wechsler Family Foundation - Middle East - Iran - Syria - Leban
		Syria is reported to have thousands of rockets with ranges of up to 56 miles positioned along Syria's southern border with Israel, while longer-range missiles armed with chemical warheads are believed to be positioned further from the border.
		Syria is reported to have thousands of rockets with ranges of up to 56 miles positioned along Syria's southern border with Israel, while other Syrian assets - longer-range missiles armed with chemical warheads - are believed to be positioned further from the border.
		Syria's recent acquisitions, deployment of tactical assets, and its menacing troop posture in the Golan Heights represent a continued threat to Israel.
	www.jcpa.org /JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=380&PID=0&IID=1835&TTL=Syria’s_Role_in_Regional_Destabilization:_An_American_View (3336 words)

	CSIS Publication - Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and Prospects of War
		Syria has made things worse by weakening its ties to other Arab power like Saudi Arabia, adventures in Lebanon, ties to Iran, mismanagement of its economic development, and poor force planning and military development.
		Syria can use terrorist and extremist movements are proxies, but only as a “spoiler” effort that irritates Israel more than it pressures or threatens it.
		As for the conventional military balance, Syria has become so weak and isolated relative to Israel that such a war could still be bloody and costly to both sides, but would almost certainly be quickly and decisively won by Israel.
	www.csis.org /component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4003/type,1 (402 words)

	Syria stops military cooperation with U.S. - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the last 10 days Syria had “severed all links” with the United States military and CIA as a result of the unjust American allegations, Imad Moustapha, Syria’s ambassador to the United States said.
		Despite steps Syria took to stop the attacks and violence in Iraq, and despite Syria’s withdrawal from Lebanon, in response to international demands, the Bush administration had decided “to escalate the situation with Syria”, Mr.
		Syria's stance has prompted intense debate at high levels in the U.S. government about new steps that might be taken against the Syrian government, the Times said, citing some administration officials, saying that those options include possible military, diplomatic or economic action.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=8242 (857 words)

	[No title]
		Ali Habib, Syria's chief of staff, said in a speech during the departure ceremony, that President Bashar Assad had decided to pull out his troops after the Lebanese army had been "rebuilt on sound national foundations and became capable of protecting the state."
		Habib said Syria had no "ambitions in Lebanon, except to protect it." By withdrawing, Habib, said that Syria will have "fulfilled all its obligations toward" U.N. Resolution 1559, which called on it to pull out.
		Lebanese army commander Michel Suleiman lauded the role of Syria's army in Lebanon, crediting it with rebuilding the army, maintaining peace among the country's 17 sects and ending the 1975-90 civil war.
	www.cbn.com /cbnnews/Wire/050426a.aspx (754 words)

	Online NewsHour: Israeli Military Strikes Syria -- October 06, 2003
		And we've consistently told Syria that it must cease harboring terrorists and make a clean break from those who are responsible for the planning and directing of terrorist action from Syrian soil.
		And they may well have seen this kind of an act, not one which attacks Syria, but attacks a base in Syria, as giving a kind of message to the Syrians that may get their attention in ways that the diplomatic messages have not.
		And the rationale they give is that Syria houses approximately 400,000 Palestinian refugees, and that they allow various groups that represent these refugees to have offices in Syria.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/iraq_10-06.html (1849 words)

	SyriaComment.com: US mulling military options against Syria
		The main debate is whether any US military strike should be confined to a few targets, destruction of which would inflict enough pain on Baschar Assad and his regime to prompt them to rein in the anti-US forces operating from Syria, or whether a broad military campaign aimed at regime change would be preferable.
		The first was the US-Syrian agreement signed in September, in which Syria agreed to cooperate with the US military in curbing the two-way traffic of smuggled guerrillas, terrorists, arms and money through the Syrian-Iraqi border.
		During the Clinton adminstration Syria was used as an ally in both the Lebanon and Palestinian issue.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2004/12/us-mulling-military-options-against.htm (1985 words)

	Military Of Syria
		If you would like to use this flag of Syria or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
		If you would like to use this map of Syria or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
		If you would like to use this information for Syria or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/syria_country_military.shtml (221 words)

	US weighed military strikes in Syria
		The same article also reported that Syria had ended all security and intelligence cooperation with the United States several months ago after growing frustrated with persistent public criticism from Washington.
		Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, told Newsweek that his government continued to detain Islamic extremists and remained willing to resume cooperation if the public bashing stopped.
		While criticizing Syria in public statements, the United States had privately praised Damascus for handing over the half brother of Saddam Hussein, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, earlier in the year, the magazine reported.
	www.infowars.net /articles/october2005/101005usweighed.htm (389 words)

	Talabani backs 'Iran-Syria plan' - Military Photos
		Four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, bringing the US toll to more than 60 in October alone, the military said on Wednesday.
		An Associated Press count said that at least 2,775 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.
		Talabani said he is not worried that the panel may recommend an early withdrawal of coalition troops from Iraq.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=94544 (265 words)

	JURIST - Paper Chase: Syria military court sentences writer to six months for criticizing government
		Syria military court sentences writer to six months for criticizing government
		Joshua Pantesco at 6:31 AM ET [JURIST] A military court in Syria [JURIST news archive] has sentenced writer Mohammad Ghanem to six months in prison for "insulting the Syrian president, discrediting the Syrian government and fomenting sectarian unrest," a human rights group said Wednesday.
		The charges stem from Ghanem's articles published on a website he edits, Surion [in Arabic], that call on the Baathist ruling party to end the repression of Syrian Kurds.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/2006/06/syria-military-court-sentences-writer.php (353 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)