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Syria: Lebanon and Syria
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In the mid-1970s Syria sent some 20,000 troops to support Muslim Lebanese in their armed conflict with Christian militants supported by Israel during the civil war in Lebanon. Syrian troops frequently clashed with Israeli troops during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and remained thereafter as occupiers of large portions of Lebanon.
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Syria's terrain, climate, and vegetation are diverse. Mountains dominate the western and southwestern margins and separate the narrow coastal plain from the interior. The Anti-Lebanon Mountains, the highest range, straddle the boundary with Lebanon and are high enough to receive heavy snow in winter.
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Syria is located in the Middle East. Syria Is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the south and east, Jordan to the south, and Lebanon and Israel to the west.
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Syria is a Middle East nation, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey. The terrain here is primarily semiarid and desert plateau, with a narrow coastal plain and mountains in the west. Arabic is the official language; Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic and Circassian are widely understood; French and English are somewhat understood.
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Syria denied any role in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and critic of the Syrian occupation, who was killed in a Beirut bombing. The United States withdrew its ambassador to Syria, and 100,000 mourners turned out for Hariri's funeral.
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