{"id":343027,"date":"2025-07-18T16:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=343027"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:56:30","slug":"key-facts-about-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Syria\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, the Israeli military carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes targeting areas close to the Syrian army and the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Damascus.<\/p>\n<h2>About Syria<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.britannica.com\/51\/4551-050-98D9E63B\/Syria-map-boundaries-cities-locator.jpg?resize=468%2C388&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"History of Syria \" width=\"468\" height=\"388\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: Western Asia, eastern Mediterranean<\/li>\n<li><strong>Borders: <\/strong>It is bordered by Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and the Mediterranean Sea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest Point:<\/strong> Mount Hermon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrain<\/strong>: Coastal plains, northwest mountains (Anti-Lebanon, Jabal al\u2011Druze), central\/eastern plateau and desert, and fertile Euphrates valley.<\/li>\n<li>Its area includes territory in the <strong>Golan Heights<\/strong> that has been occupied by Israel since 1967<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers &amp; Reservoirs<\/strong>: The Major rivers are the Euphrates, the Orontes and the Tigris. Lake Assad is the largest reservoir.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>: Mediterranean coast; semi-arid steppe inland; arid desert in east.<\/li>\n<li>It got independence on 17 Apr 1946.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethnic Groups<\/strong>: Arabs, Kurds, plus Turkmen, Assyrians, Circassians, Armenians, Druze, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the Israeli military carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes targeting areas close to the Syrian army and the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Damascus. About Syria Location: Western Asia, eastern Mediterranean Borders: It is bordered by Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and the Mediterranean Sea. Highest Point: Mount Hermon. Terrain: Coastal plains,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-syria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts about Syria\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10595],"class_list":["post-343027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}