Syria

Syria is a country in West Asia, bordering Kurdistan to the North, Iraq to the South-East, Lebanon to the Southwest, and Israel to the South.

Syria was one of the three countries born from the former French mandate of Outremer. Unlike the other two states, Syria was not designated for a minority, but rather was the dumping ground for all Arab Muslims in Outremer. Syria held antagonistic views to its two 'sisters', as many Syrian citizens had been forcibly relocated by French authorities to make way for Christian and Jewish migrants. Syria and Egypt invaded Lebanon and Israel in 1947, eventually leading to the Red Wars in 1955. While the Syrian alliance would defeat the communist forces, the Syrian government broke down as civil war erupted in 1961, when the Communist Party of Syria took control of the country in an armed coup.

After the Red Wars, Syria joined into the Eastern Mediterranean Alliance, but would eventually abandon most tenants of Communism as it progressed into the later 20th- early 21st century.