Syrian people

The Syrian people (Arabic: الشعب السوري‎ / ALA-LC: al-sha‘ab al-Sūrī; Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܢ‎) are the inhabitants of Syria, and their ancestors who share a common Levantine Semitic ancestry. The term also refers to the citizens of Syria, regardless of ancestry, mother tongue, ethnic identity, or culture.

The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years.

The Syrian republic has a population of nearly 17 million as of 2014, in addition to 4 million Syrian refugees. The dominant racial group is the Syrian descendants of the old indigenous peoples who mixed with Arabs and identify themselves as such in addition to ethnic Aramean. The country also includes the following ethnic minorities: Armenians, Assyrians, Circassians, Greeks, Kurds, and Turkmens.

The Syrian diaspora consists of 15 million people of Syrian ancestry, who emigrated to North America (United States and Canada), European Union member states (including Sweden, France and Germany), South America (mainly in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Colombia), Australia, and Africa.

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Syrian government raises its flag over cradle of 2011 revolt

NWF Daily News 13 Jul 2018

The display is laden with symbolism as the government moves to stamp out the last of the uprising against the 52-year-old Assad, who has ruled with an iron fist over Syria for 18 years ... ....

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Syrian government raises its flag over Daraa, cradle of 2011 uprising, after rebels surrender

Tucson 13 Jul 2018

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government raises its flag over Daraa, cradle of 2011 uprising, after rebels surrender ... ....

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The Latest: Syrian troops raise national flag over Daraa

Tucson 13 Jul 2018

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local) ... ....

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Syrian Government retakes Daraa, raises national flag in city for first time since 2011

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 13 Jul 2018

The national flag is raised over areas of Daraa city that have been in rebel hands for years, in a major victory for President Bashar al-Assad at the birthplace of the revolt against his rule ... ....

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Syrian army raises flag in Daraa, cradle of revolt

Dawn 13 Jul 2018

DARAA ... Until then, the northern half of Daraa city was in regime hands, while the opposition held out in its southern neighbourhoods including Daraa al-Balad. “Syrian army units enter Daraa al-Balad and raise the national flag in the main square,” the official news agency SANA reported on Thursday afternoon ... But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the flag raising on Thursday was merely “symbolic”....

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photo: AP / Hussein Malla

In this Wednesday, March 23, 2011 file photo, anti-Syrian government protesters flash Victory signs as they protest in the southern city of Daraa, Syria.

Syrian Forces Retake Daraa

WorldNews.com 13 Jul 2018

The Syrian government of president Bashar al-Assad retook the rebel-controlled city of Daraa on Thursday, capturing the city where the protests first began against Assad which sparked the seven-year civil war, according to The Guardian. Syrian state media said the Syrian forces raised the flag for the first time in several years after they regained several remaining rebel-controlled portions of the city....

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Syrian government forces raise flag in Dara'a, birthplace of the war

CNN 13 Jul 2018

(CNN)Syrian government forces say they have retaken a town that was the epicenter of the civil war that engulfed the country and the region for more than seven years. State media said the Syrian troops entered the town of Dara'a on Thursday ... Smoke rises above opposition held areas of the city of Dara'a during airstrikes by Syrian regime forces on June 28, 2018 ... For many Syrians, the story of the war began with graffiti in Dara'a....

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Syrian army enters and raises flag in rebel-held city of Darra

This is Money 13 Jul 2018

The Syrian army has entered and raised the government’s flag in the rebel-held city of Daraa – the first city to revolt against President Bashar Assad, sparking a brutal seven-year-long war. State media reported that Syrian army units today (Thursday) erected the national flag in the cradle of the uprising, in the main square ... Syrian men waving their ......

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Backs to wall at Golan frontier, Syrian family, among 320,000 in flight, fears more army advances

Japan Times 12 Jul 2018

Abu Ahmad has sheltered at the frontier of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for days, fleeing an army offensive that has swept through southwestern Syria.His family ... ....

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Syrian air defenses thwart Israeli missile strike in south: state media

Reuters 12 Jul 2018

Syrian military air defenses thwarted missiles that Israeli aircraft fired at army positions in Quneitra province in the early hours of Thursday, state media said ... ....

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Syrian air defenses thwart Israeli missile strike near Golan Heights

The Jerusalem Post 12 Jul 2018

Earlier on Wednesday a Patriot missile intercepted a Syrian drone which infiltrated into northern Israel with some parts of the UAV falling in the Sea of Galilee ... ....

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Fear and uncertainty grip Syrians sheltering near Israel border

The Jerusalem Post 12 Jul 2018

With Jordan's border sealed, FAI Relief workers in Syria say Syrians are begging for more aid to be re-directed via Israel ... ....

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Israel says hits Syrian army posts in response to drone incursion

Reuters 12 Jul 2018

Israeli forces attacked Syrian military positions near the Golan Heights frontier in the early hours of Thursday, causing limited damage, Syrian state media said ... ....

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