Military history of Syria

Military history of Syria

Antiquity

Middle Ages

Islamic conquest of Persia
1251-1259 Mongol invasion of Persia, Syria and Mesopotamia
Growth of the Ottoman Empire, Selim I

Modern

French Mandate of Syria
1948 Arab-Israeli War
Six-Day War
Yom Kippur War (part of the Golan Heights conflict)
Syrian occupation of Lebanon
1982 Lebanon War
2011 Syrian uprising

Sources

The Middle East: 2000 Years of History From The Rise of Christianity to the Present Day, Bernard Lewis, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
Qajar Studies: War and Peace in the Qajar Era, Journal of the Qajar Studies Association, London: 2005.

See also

Military history of Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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