Syria

Flag of Syria

**Syria,** Officially, **The Sultanate of Syria and the Levant.** Is a large country in the Middle east. Syria is a Unitary Constitutional Monarchy underneath currently the house of Al-Atrash who represent the country in the Cairo Pact. Syria was the trigger for the massive Arab Revolution and Sultan Al-Atrash declared open rebellion against the Ottoman Empire with support from Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and Libya, Syria was where most of the fighting during the war took place. Syria's declaration of rebellion occurred on April 15th 1939 however the nation was only able to make a government in 1940 given the scattered nature of the rebellion. Syria and the rest of the Cairo Pact did not join the Second Weltkrieg but rather would end up selling off their natural resources to the highest bidder. Syria is a member of the Cairo Pact and is where most of the alliances forces are stationed incase of war with the Ottoman State.

## History

In 1936 Syria was simply a collection of provinces underneath the Ottoman Empire. The region was rebellious but not as rebellious as their Hejazian brothers to the south but initially the Ottomans were quite lenient to Syria. However with the death of Enver Pasha this initial leniency to the Syrians would end as as the new prime minsters would attempt to try and suppress the rebelliousness of the Syrians. Over time this began to boil up within Syria as the people of Syria where not happy with the Ottoman Empire and soon support began to be handed to the Syrians by the Egyptians and Persians. All of this would boil over in 1939 when a popular leader Al-Atrash declared Syria to now be independent of the Ottoman empire. This declaration was followed by that of the Iraqis as the south of the Ottoman Empire was now on fire. However the Syrians were quite more disorganized than the Iraqis and much of the country would fall to the Ottoman Empire forcing Al-Atrash to retreat to the south into Jerusalem to try and gain support from the Egyptian forces in the area. There the combined armies of the two would fight the battle of Tel Aviv witch would be the farthest the Ottomans would get before the crushing defeat there. Over the next few months more of Syria would be liberated by combined offensives by Syrian, Arabian, and Egyptian forces. Damascus would fall in late October and Aleppo the next year in January. The Ottomans would then fall back to the ruins of Antioch hoping to try and hold off the Syrian offensive and encircle their troops. However with Arab, Iraqi, and Persian reinforcements the Ottoman forces were broken. With no hope of conventional victory the Treaty of Cairo was signed with a couple of agreements to keep the Ottoman Caliphate in nominal control over the islamic world, albeit this isn't really respected. However before the agreements was signed the Ottomans were able to fund the Kurds within the region as well as Islamic fundamentalists within the region. These rebels would then plague the northern regions of Syria for the next few years adding more devastation to the region as Syrian forces struggled to fight the rebellious forces. This required the forces of the Cairo Pact keeping the alliance out of the war. In the meantime the Syrians would end up selling their limited exports to the Two Sicilies and the French Republic. However this would end up coming back to hurt the Syrians in 1948 with the fall of the Union of Britain and the rising tensions between the Reichspakt and the Entente. This would end up wrecking the Syrians economically as they relied on the Entente nations for their exports. However Egypt would end up helping the Syrians via an economic scheme where Egypt would buy Syria's resources in return for Egypt getting to export them to Mitteleafrika for a profit. This has helped Syria recover but the nation is still the poorest within the Cairo Pact. Syria's future is unknown as not much is going on for the nation. However the rising calls for Secularization and liberalism across the Cairo Pact have caused concerns for the Pro-Caliphate conservative government.

## Military

The Syrian Military is mostly geared towards fighting Insurgent groups across the middle east and is used by the Cairo Pact as a military police force. Most of this funding has gone towards the army whose tactics have developed to divide and conquer in such a fashion to methodically clear areas at a time. While this is slower than liked it is very effective and may be the only way to fight the Kurdish rebellion witch is still ongoing. Syria however does not pay much attention to its navy as the proximity to Egypt has given it most of the fleet power it needs. However it does have some things to prevent foreign agents from landing in the country undetected. Syria has a limited air force of mostly CAS as this air force is catered towards taking out small insurgent encampments. However this may not be possible in the event of Syria needing to fight a resurgent Ottoman Empire.