On International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a women’s rights group active in the Kurdistan Region announced that zero cases of GM were reported in the Garmiyan Administration in 2019.
Women’s rights group eliminates female genital mutilation in Kurdistan’s Garmiyan region Read more
Donor governments on Tuesday pledged an initial $857 million to fund the United Nations refugee agency’s work to help some 67 million displaced or stateless people worldwide in 2018.
Donors make initial pledges of $857 million to fund UN refugee agency’s work in 2018 Read more
Syria’s decision brings to 197 the number of nations signed up to the landmark 2015 pact on global warming, the first in more than 20 years of UN negotiations to bind both developed and developing countries to a clear limit on temperature rises.
Syria signs Paris climate agreement Read more
The League’s main goal is to “draw closer the relations between member states and co-ordinate collaboration between them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries”.
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria form the League of Arab States Read more
The Book describes 100 innovative mechanical devices, including the camshaft, some 80 of which are trick vessels of various kinds, along with instructions on how to construct them.
Ismail al-Jazari publishes The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices Read more
At its greatest extent, the Seljuk Empire controlled a vast area stretching from western Anatolia and the Levant to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf in the south.
Tughril Beg and Chaghri Beg found the Seljuk Empire Read more
For the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to Hurrian Hymn No. 6, an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C.
Oldest known song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6”, composed in Ancient Sumeria Read more
Phoenicia was an ancient civilization composed of independent city-states located along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea stretching through what is now Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel.
Phoenician civilization flourishes in the eastern Mediterranean Read more
Pottery from the 3rd millennium B.C.E. has been discovered in the Old City of Damascus.
The ancient Roman historian Pliny suggested that Phoenician merchants had made the first glass in the region of Syria around 5000 B.C.E. But according to the archaeological evidence, the first man made glass was in Eastern Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3500 B.C.E.
Humans make glass for the first time, perhaps in modern-day Syria Read more
