Questions tagged [syria]
for questions about claims based in Syria, or limited in Syria.
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Has the USA been stealing oil from Syria?
It has been widely claimed that the US has been stealing oil from Syria.
For example:
China's Global Times, August 2022:
On August 8, the Syrian Oil Ministry said that the US and its mercenaries ...
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Did Syrian army Pantsir systems destroy 23 Tomahawks (using just 25 missiles) in an attack on Damascus?
It's been claimed in a Russian documentary that
When NATO delivered a Tomahawk strike against Damascus, it was the Pantsir systems of the Syrian army that destroyed 23 targets, using just 25 missiles....
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Is this "ancient Hebrew leather manuscript" seized by police in Turkey authentic?
Some time ago there was news of a manuscript stolen from a Syrian museum, seized from smugglers in Turkey. There are many other articles about this as well.
Turkish police seize ancient manuscript ...
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Did Turkey neutralize thousands of Syrian Army soldiers?
Operation Spring Shield was a Turkish military operation between from February 27 to March 3rd.
A Turkish news source article, Turkey neutralizes 3,000+ regime elements in Idlib, Syria reported on ...
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Were there 2.48 million Syrians living in Saudi Arabia in 2018?
GMI claims
As per the data from 2017-2018, more than 30% of the Saudi population are expats. The total number of non-Saudis in the country is estimated to be 10,736,293. Nearly a quarter of this ...
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Were some Russians killed in a fight with American forces in Syria in February 2018?
I just read a question on history stack exchange that linked to this Feb 2018 National Review article:
On the night of February 7, “pro-regime” Syrian forces reportedly launched an assault on a “...
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Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre inspected by OPCW in Nov 2017? [closed]
Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre the same as the " Barzah facility" in this 23 March 2018 OPCW report stating (section 11):
the second round
of inspections at the Barzah and ...
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Was there a chemical attack in Syria in April 2018 and was Bashar al-Assad responsible for it? [closed]
Trump said in a tweet on April 8, 2008:
Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it ...
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Did the US (ab)use the "deconfliction channel" with Russia to shoot the Syrian Su-22 plane? [closed]
I just read this piece of news:
... the American plane took off from a carrier (George HW Bush), flew over all of Russia's radar and missile sites in western Syria, shot down the Syrian Su-22 in ...
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Did the Syrian government use Sarin (or other chemical weapons) in the 2017 Khan Shaykhun attack?
On the 4 April 2017, there was an airstrike attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun in Syria, with over 70 civilians killed and many hundreds injured.
Responsibility is attributed to the Syrian ...
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Did Syria use chemical weapons (in the recent April 2017 ordeal with 30+ civilian casualties)? [duplicate]
My Apple News Feed blew up regarding the missile strike on the Syrian airbase in response to the "Chemical Weapon Attack" - which I put in quotes because while all the major news outlets in my news ...
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Did the Syrian government use chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun? [closed]
Since April 4th 2017, reports have been released about a chemical attack that is supposed to have occurred in a Syrian town called Khan Shaykhun.
According to the BBC, "[t]he UK's foreign secretary, ...
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Do most Syrian refugees want eventually to return to Syria?
Jordan's King Abdullah II said at a press conference with President Trump that Syrian refugees want to return to Syria (live video of press conference, can't find archived video yet).
The statement ...
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Was it harder for Syrian Christians to immigrate to the US than Muslims?
As a justification for his intention to prioritise Christian refugees over Muslim refugees, President Trump said:
Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough,...
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Were 14 US-Led Coalition Military Advisors captured by Syrian Special Forces in Aleppo?
It caught my eye on Wikipedia's current events portal that US-led coalition military advisors had been captured in a bunker in Aleppo. This story has since disappeared off of Wikipedia, but several (...
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