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About Syria

The Syria Arab Republic lies to the extreme east end of the Mediterranean Sea and in the south west of continent Asia . This country also included in the Middle East countries is essentially a land of fertile river valley with rich cultural heritage of the ancient civilization which once flourished in the vast region of which present Syria was only

a part . The renowned scholars and artists of Syria immensely influenced not only the culture of the later Muslim empires but also the cultures of ancient Rome and Greece

Most of Syria 's land comprises of a vast stretch of rolling plains and desolate desert . From its two thickly populated countries i .e . Aleppo and Damascus , the latter is its capital

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The central location of Syria lying within trade routes and connecting Asia Africa and Europe gave her a strategic importance . In the olden days camel caravans often followed these routes carrying goods and commodities from Asia to Mediterranean cities . It is because of their location alongside the trade routes that the old cities of Syria like Aleppo , Latakia and Damascus grew up rapidly and were established along these routes and became great centers of the international trade ever since 2000 B .C (As 'ad A , n .p .n .d

The Background Conflict

B skirmishes between Israel and Syria had been occurring too often during the period of 1960s and finally the war between them erupted on 5 , June 1967 with Jordan and Egypt joining hands with Syria . After the famous 6-day Arab-Israel war of June 1967 , most of Arab land including the Golan Heights in the south west was lost to Israel . Tens of thousand Arabs fled from the then Israel-occupied territory and were forced to take refuge in the neighboring Arab lands . But fighting between Syria and Israel continued around the Golan Heights even after the war had ended . The exodus of the Palestinian Arabs in great numbers to Syria added a fuel to the fire , and a genuine cause for Syria to be on the offensive . Then again Syria , hand in hand with Egypt , went to war against Israel in October 1974 but through an immediate cease-fire this fight too ended in the next month of November the same year . Despite most of the fighting ended through the Cease-fire , the troops on both sides of Israel and Syria continued to fight until up to 1974 May . When Israel had claimed legal occupation of the Arab-occupied land of Golan Heights through a Political Authority , many Arab nations led by Syria condemned this action of Israel with zeal and fervor (As 'ad A n .p .n .d

Syria 's Strategic Position

Adjoining the Mediterranean Sea between Lebanon and Turkey Syria is a country whose political and economic standing is greatly attributed to its central location especially...

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