Military history of Syria

Military history of Syria

Antiquity

• Military history of the Assyrian Empire
• Military history of Persia
• Sassanid army

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

• History of Syria
• Military of Syria

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