List of wars involving Syria
This is a list of wars involving 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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None[1]
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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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.