crimes." Security forces intervened to end the confrontation, firing warning shots into the air to disperse the crowds. Also on 9 March, activists in the mainly-Druze

(IRGC) in Syria in response to a drone attack that killed a US contractor in northeastern Syria on 23 March 2023. On 26 October, two U.S. jets struck two IRGC

the name of the city can be traced to Itūr-Mēr, an ancient storm deity of northern Mesopotamia and Syria, who was considered the tutelary deity of the

not guilty. Itūr-Mēr was the tutelary god of Mari, an ancient Mesopotamian city identified with the modern site of Tell Hariri in Syria, located close to

Archived from the original on 18 May 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2018. Le Strange, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy

#DeirEzZor is called "The Prince of Martyrs" in memory of Brigadier General Ali Khuzam". Gregory Waters (15 May 2019). "Col Nizar Mahmoud, commander of the 800th