syria

During First Crusade's first fight the siege of Nicaea Byzantine Emperor Alexios I made the city surrender to him separately from the Crusades. This alienated them from him. That distrust led the Crusaders into a separate path of not helping Byzantium. Eventually when Alexios refused to relieve...

Hittite King Mursili I invaded Yamhad in Northern Syria to avenge his grandfather Hattusili I's defeat and defeat it's hands. He captured it's capital Aleppo ending it. Next he invaded Mesopotamia and marched on Babylon sacking it which ended the Old Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi's dynasty. But...

Hi, welcome to my first alt-history fic. This will be primarily focused on Persia, but for those of you Rome fans there will be plenty of focus on the Roman Empire too. This TL is partially inspired by this thread which I recommend you read. You may notice me in that thread, arguing that Rome...

Hello. I have been writing a story where Reagan is elected president in 1976, and Iran remains as a Western ally after becoming a constitutional monarchy (and this happen because either the Ayatollah Khomeini is killed or remains as a obscure figure preventing seize control of the Iranian...

From 1976 to 2005, Syria occupied vast swathes of Lebanese territory with the approval of the Arab League and the West due to the backlash from the Lebanese Civil War. During this period, Hafez Assad repeatedly undermined Lebanese sovereignty and political autonomy, probably with the final goal...

During the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, the Syrian National Congress proclaimed Faisal (a member of the Hashemite dynasty) king of a Syria whose territory was supposed to encompass what is now Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel. This...

In Spring 2007, Israeli intelligence discovered a nuclear reactor site under construction in Syria which, and based on intelligence from the Americans, matched a style of site in North Korea. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert alerted the Bush Administration of this, who, after deliberation, wanted to...

Low-level conflict had persisted on the Syrian border since 1949, the creation of three De-Militarized Zones of immense strategic and economic important had ironically provoked small-scale outbreaks of violence, in particular the DMZ along the Sea of Galilee proved to be of particular interest...

The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon included the Alawite and Jabal Druze states. However, in 1936, French colonial authorities allowed these states to be incorporated into the Syrian Republic as a concession to its ruling party at the time, the Nationalist Bloc. While there were many among...

What if Byzantines reconquer Syria and Egypt by allying with other Arabs against Umayyads during First and second fitna and supporting christian rebellions in the caliphate how would islam develop without ummayads and abbasids ? will this avoid twenty year anarchy?

During the later stages of the Great War, Faysal ibn Husayn (later King Faysal of Syria then King Faysal of Iraq, attempted to negotiate an arrangement with the Ottomans under which he would rule the vilayet of Syria and Mosul as an Ottoman vassal, claiming he had been disillusioned with the...

What if, instead of managing to capture the city, circumstances had wound up such that the crusaders besieging Jerusalem... didn't? Whether a more spirited defense, worse efforts on the parts of the besiegers, or just sheer luck. The Crusaders are crushed outside the walls of the Holy City...

According to former Vice President of Egypt, Abdel-Latif Al-Boghdadi, Nasser initially supported a federal union for the United Arab Republic. However the threat of a Communist takeover prompted him to support a total union under strict measures. Such measures such as the outlaw of all political...

Let’s say that Syria manage to do far better during the 48 war because of PoDs before the wars ( or even Palestinian militia in mandatory Palestine civil war doing better in the region) and manage to take keep something around these land ( the red line) . What would be the consequence ? in the...

Hashemite have historically tried many time to create a « Hashemite Kingdom of Greater Syria » how would it be doable for Abdullah II and the Jordanian military to try profit of the Crisis early on to create it ? I guess they could play a narrative with them being Sunni to unite the rebel...

What pod post-WW2 would allow for a sucssful Iraq-Syria Union lead by the Ba'ath Party or a group with a similar ideology?

What actually happened per Wikipedia; Alternate Outcome; Saddam eventually agrees to Assad's conditions but the infamous Ba'ath Party purge that followed saw Assad arrested and the union transformed into a unitary state completely under Saddam's control.

Your challenge is for the Fertile Plan to be enacted (Jordan,Syria,Lebanon and Iraq ) to be united then to have an Italy that changes sides but that it can have better terms with the Allies. For the first I think a British ship that wasn't sunk by Vichy OTL could instead be actually sunk (I...

Let’s say the Syrian manage take the Golan by focusing more on taking strategic position than killing isolated group of soldiers and manage to hold it against Israeli counter attack with Syria not crumbling Egypt remain in the defensive and hold western Sinai the conflict end with a pretty clear...

As the titles say, what would happen in the case of this two possible events?