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Eastern end of mediteranean sea

Shares borders with turkey, iraq, jordan isreal and lebanon

West-jordan

Has access to the coast (medditarean sea

Turkey on the south

A tiny bit larger than south dakota

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Political map of Syria with capital Damascus, national borders, most...

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Narrow plain on western end

Mountain ranges

Syrian desert covered in rocks and gravel

2 major rivers, orontes and euphrates

East of the mountains are desert

Jabal al-druze range

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Ancient cities-palmyra

Syria has some of the older cities and civilizations in the world

Remaints of histroical land marks

Temples

Palmyra roman theater

Many old churches and religious buildings are in syria

Great collanade of ampea

damascus

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Hot and dry in the summer

Cooler in winter months

Coast has rain and milder temps.

Most of the area is semiarid desert

Winter temps- 50

Summer- high in 90

Suptrpical near the south

Precipitation isn’t very common

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Syria and isreal cant agree on the location of the border

High employment

Corruption

No political freedom

Pro-democracy protests led out in deraa and inspired others to act up

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In 2011 factors caused a fast spiraling war

Protests against bashar al-assad saying he should resign were everywhere

Made the government mad

Violence against supporters of bashar and haters went up quikly into a civil war

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The war has been going on for 11 years

Weapons, and violence have gone up

Over 400,000 people died since march 2011

Russia supports mr.bashar with campaigning ith him and making the war easier

Iran is beleive to send over billions of money just to help bashar

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Succeeded his father in 2000

He thought he could be better, but fell into his fathers old footsteps being the (ruler)

The president age requirement was lowered for bashar

He kept the conflict going with isreal

Cracked under pressure and became tougher to fight off the hate groups

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Russia and china support the government

The president is the commander in chief

Mandatory for men ages 18-42 to join

Ranked 42 out of 147

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2011 rebel forces drove the president to war

Military occupation

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Islamic state of law

They sell oil

Evil extremist group

Did terrible things like taking innocent lives, slavery of all kinds etc

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Turkey has been trying to attack

Sending troops in

Democratic forces

“Started” the war

Started with protests

Led to military occupation in northern syria

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Us is involved with war

They planned attacks

Theres us military bases

Hundreds of troops

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In the past 6 years, over 500,000 syrians died

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Got forced to be refugees in other countries

Imprisonment and voilent actions from the assad regime

Syrian government used deadly force

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Damaged economy badly

Kids and people have been impacted byt many attacks, and violence

More than 70% of syrians live in poverty

No money to spend no money to use

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Covid-19

70% of syrians are in poverty

45% of refugees are under 18 and have no education

The UN agency has provided shelters, food quararentine areas, they have built schools, homes, hospitals and included hygeine products