Syria in Perspective
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