Syria in Perspective

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Before the civil war, the Homs Gap was a popular trekking route to the source of the Orontes River.

False

During the civil war, Iran supported anti-government rebels who fought against the Assad regime.

False

Hama is the capital of the Kurdish semiautonomous region.

False

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 (also called the October War).

False

Most of Syria's oil fields are located near the Mediterranean coast.

False

Syria gained independence after the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.

False

Syria shares its southern border with Saudi Arabia.

False

Syria withdrew its forces from Lebanon following the death of Hafez al-Assad in 2000.

False

Syria's Armenians are a nomadic people who have historically inhabited the Levant.

False

Syria's banks collapsed under the pressure of economic sanctions and corruption.

False

The Syrian currency is the dinar.

False

The Syrian government does not imprison women because it is forbidden by Islam.

False

The United States moved its embassy from Damascus to Latakia after the first chemical weapon attack on a suburb of Damascus.

False

Jabal al-Durūz is the traditional home of one of Syria's religious minorities.

True

Kibbeh and tabbouleh are names of popular Syrian dishes.

True

Most of Syria is a semiarid desert plateau.

True

President Hafez al-Assad ruled Syrai for several decades.

True

Russia has exclusive rights to produce Syria's oil and natural gas.

True

Russia has high stakes in the Syrian civil war.

True

Syria is a designated state sponsor of terrorism.

True

The Baath Party is the ruling party of Syria.

True

The Muslim Brotherhood-led an uprising in the city of Hama in the early 1980s.

True

The city of Daraa was the epicenter of anti-government protests that led to Syria's civil war.

True

Thousands of Syrian Kurds are considered noncitizens.

True

Yazidis are a Kurdish ethnoreligious minority.

True


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