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www .sana .sy /en / (English) The Syrian Arab News Agency ( SANA) ( Arabic: الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء ( سانا ), al-Wakālah al-ʿArabīyah as-Sūrīyah lil-ʾAnbāʾ (SĀNĀ)) is a Syrian state-controlled news agency, linked to the country's ministry of information. It was established in June 1965.
v. t. e. The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region.
Politics of Syria. Presidential elections were held in Syria on 26 May 2021, with expatriates able to vote in some embassies abroad on 20 May. [ 2] The three candidates were incumbent president Bashar al-Assad, Mahmoud Ahmad Marei and Abdullah Sallum Abdullah. The elections were considered not to be free and fair. [ 3]
Syria, [ a] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [ b] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.
Bashar al-Assad[ a][ b] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which nominally espouses a neo-Ba'athist ideology.
They appoint and dismiss the prime minister and other members of the Council of Ministers (the cabinet) and military officers. [ 2] Bashar al-Assad is the 19th and current president of Syria. He entered the post on 17 July 2000. Bashar Al-Assad is the son of former president, Hafez al-Assad, who was the longest-serving president, serving 29 years.
Syria has an embassy in Athens. [ 448] On May 8, 2020, the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias announced a restoration of relations between Greece and Syria and assigned former ambassador to Syria and Russia, Tasia Athanassiou, as a Special Envoy of Greece's Foreign Ministry for Syria. See Greeks in Syria.
This made Syria the country with the highest population growth. The birth rate was estimated at 22.19 births per 1000 people. The death rate is 4.07 deaths for 1000 people. The median age (estimated in 2020) for males is 23 years old, while for females it is 24 years old.