Military history of Syria

The List as follows. This includes the Syrian civil war and so on.

Antiquity

• Military history of the Assyrian Empire
• Military history of Persia
• Sassanid army

List of battles with the Roman:

• Siege of Apamea – 45 BC – 44 BC – Caesar's civil war
• Battle of Mount Gindarus – 38 BC – Pompeian–Parthian invasion of 40 BC (Roman–Parthian Wars)
• Battle of Resaena – 243 – Roman–Persian Wars
• Battle of Barbalissos – 252 – Roman–Persian Wars
• Siege of Dura-Europos (256) – 256 – Roman–Persian Wars
• Sack of Bostra – 270 – Crisis of the Third Century
• Battle of Emesa – 272 – Crisis of the Third Century
• Battle of Thannuris – 528 – Iberian War
• Battle of Callinicum – 531 – Iberian War

Middle Ages

• Islamic conquest of Persia
• 1251–1259 Mongol invasion of Persia, Syria and Mesopotamia
• Growth of the Ottoman Empire, Selim I

Civil wars of the early Caliphates

• Battle of Siffin – 657 – First Fitna
• Battle of Marj Rahit (684) – 684 – Second Fitna
• Battle of Ayn al-Warda – 685 – Second Fitna

List of battles in Syria during the Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arab–Byzantine wars):

• Battle of Marj Rahit (634)
• Battle of al-Qaryatayn – 634
• Battle of Bosra – 634
• Battle of Marj al-Saffar (634)
• Siege of Damascus (634)
• Battle of Maraj-al-Debaj – 634
• Battle of Marj ar-Rum – 635
• Siege of Emesa – 635 – 636
• Battle of the Yarmuk – 636
• Siege of Laodicea (636) – 636
• Battle of Hazir – 637
• Siege of Aleppo (637)
• Siege of Emesa (638)

Arab–Byzantine wars:

• Sack of Aleppo (962) – 962
• Battle of the Orontes – 994
• Siege of Aleppo (994–995) – 994 – 995
• Battle of Apamea – 998
• Battle of Azaz (1030) – 1030

List of battles in Syria during the Crusades:

• Siege of Ma'arra – 1098 – First Crusade
• Battle of Shaizar – 1111
• Battle of Sarmin – 1115
• Battle of Ager Sanguinis – 1119
• Battle of Hab – 1119
• Siege of Aleppo (1124 = 1125)
• Battle of Azaz (1125)
• Battle of Marj al-Saffar (1126)
• Battle of al-Atharib (1130)
• Battle of Rafaniyya – 1133
• Battle of Qinnasrin – 1135
• Battle of Ba'rin – 1137
• Siege of Aleppo (1138)
• Siege of Shaizar
• Battle of Bosra (1147) – 1147
• Siege of Damascus (1148) – 1148 – Second Crusade
• Battle of Inab – 1149
• Battle of Harim – 1164
• Fall of Krak des Chevaliers – 1271
• Fall of Ruad – 1302

List of battles during the Mongol invasions of the Levant:

• First Battle of Homs – 1260
• Second Battle of Homs – 1281
• Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar – 1299
• Battle of Marj al-Saffar (1303) – 1303

Timurid conquests and invasions:

• Sack of Aleppo (1400)
• Siege of Damascus (1400)

Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) (Ottoman wars in Asia):

• Battle of Marj Dabiq – 1516

Modern

• French Mandate of Syria
• 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• Six-Day War
• Yom Kippur War (part of the Golan Heights conflict)
• Syrian occupation of Lebanon
• 1982 Lebanon War
• Syrian Revolution
• Syrian civil war
• Aftermath of the Syrian civil war

Sources

• The Middle East: 2000 Years of History From The Rise of Christianity to the Present Day, Bernard Lewis, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
• Qajar Studies: War and Peace in the Qajar Era, Journal of the Qajar Studies Association, London: 2005.

See also

• History of Syria
• Military of Syria