Syria is Broken

Syria borders Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Israel. Iran borders Turkey and Iraq and is close to Syria. The Kurds control 40% of the Syrian land area northeast of the Euphrates River.

There are oil and natural gas drilling sites and part of a pipeline in Kurdish territory.  Syria’s land area is 71,498 square miles. The population of Syria is 17.2 million.

Since March 2011, fighting in Syria has killed an estimated 465,000 people, injured more than a million and displaced some 12 million people, almost half of the country's pre-war population.

The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by President Bashar al-Assad, along with local and foreign allies, and various domestic and international forces opposing both the Syrian government and each other in varying combinations.

The civil unrest in Syria, was eventually triggered by a wider wave of the 2011 Arab Spring protests; it grew out of discontent with the authoritarian Syrian regime and escalated to an armed conflict.

https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/syria-map.htm

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader