List of wars involving Syria
This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Syria since independence, including periods of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920), Mandatory Syrian Republic, Syrian Republic (1946–63), United Arab Republic (1958–61) and Ba'athist Syria.
Conflict | Syria and allies |
Opponents | Outcome | Head of State |
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Franco-Syrian War (1920) |
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Defeat
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Great Syrian Revolt (1925–1927) |
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Defeat
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Levant Crisis (1945) |
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Victory
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First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) |
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Defeat
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First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1963–1970) |
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Stalemate | |
Six-Day War (1967) |
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Defeat
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Black September (1970) |
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Defeat
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October War (1973) |
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Defeat[3]
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Islamist uprising in Syria (1979–1982) |
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Government victory
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Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) |
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Victory
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Gulf War (1990–1991) |
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Victory
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Syrian Civil War (2011–present) |
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Ongoing
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See also[]
References[]
- ^ The revolt was effectively led by Sultan al-Atrash
- ^ Wall, Irwin M. The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945–1954, pp. 32–33. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- ^ References:
- Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
- Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
- Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
- Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
- 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
- Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
- Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society[permanent dead link] Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
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