desert highway

Syria the least evil of the axis of evil

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June 8th 2008
We entered Syria with a surprising amount of ease, we were told expect a 6 hour wait but we got over the border in around 3 hours. The first impressions that we had of Syria was how friendly everyone was, everyone always waived to us as we drove by and tried to talk to us. The other first impression was how much more conservative it was compared to Turkey and that there seemed to be very few tou ... read more

Middle East » Syria

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Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Syria was administered by the French until independence in 1946. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel. Syrian troops - stationed in Lebanon since 1976 in ... ... read more