However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

However, Eastern Aramaic dialects, as well as Akkadian and Mesopotamian Aramaic personal and family names, still survive to this day among Assyrians in the regions of northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and northeast Syria that constituted old Assyria.

However, the Council is not accepted by several of the ancient eastern churches, including the Oriental Orthodox of Egypt, Syria and Armenia, and the Assyrian Church of the East.

However, Cyril managed to open the council over Candidian's insistent demands that the bishops disperse until the delegation from Syria could arrive.

However, because al-Rammah attributes his material to " his father and forefathers ", al-Hassan argues that gunpowder became prevalent in Syria and Egypt by " the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth ".

However when the governor of Syria had to be sent to sort out renewed troubles in Dacia, Hadrian was appointed as a replacement, giving him an independent command.

However, others maintain that he escaped through Syria, overland to Soviet Armenia and thence to Russia.

However, Syria was scheduled to be an independent country, a so-called Class A Mandate, and the rights granted to France were far less than over other mandate territories.

However, his rule over Syria ended after only a few months, following the clash between his Syrian Arab forces and regular French forces at the Battle of Maysalun.

However, in 2003, Syria unilaterally declared its maritime zones, adhering to the 12 nautical miles allowed by the United Nations Law of the Sea.

However, the empire had diminished greatly following this, the most obvious change had occurred in the 7th century: the soldiers of Islam had taken Egypt, Palestine and much of Syria away from the empire irrevocably.

However, even North Korea has extensive trade with the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, Syria, Iran, Vietnam, and many countries in Europe and Africa.

However, Nebuchadnezzar failed to extend Babylonian territory further, being defeated by Ashur-resh-ishi I, king of the Assyrians for control of formerly Hittite controlled territories in Aramea ( Syria ).

However, Laodice poisons him and proclaims her son as King Seleucus II Callinicus, while her supporters in Antioch kill Berenice and her children who have taken refuge at Daphne, near Antioch, in Syria.

However, the allies had to fix the border between the British Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandate of Syria.

However, the Egyptians were defeated by the unexpected attack of the Babylonians and were eventually expelled from Syria.

However, Demetrius Poliorcetes wins a battle over Ptolemy's forces and Antigonus enters Syria in force.

However, the Seleucid kingdom was now but a shadow of its former glory, and Demetrius had a hard time ruling even in Syria.

However, the Assyrian king persevered in his attempts to subjugate Israel and Syria.

However, in the winter of 1157 – 1158 Baldwin led an expedition into Syria, where he besieged Shaizar.

However, by 1840 Ali had occupied Syria and won the Battle of Nezib against the Turkish forces.

However, the score was evened the next year ( 95 BC ) by Antiochus X Eusebes, the son of Antiochus Cyzicenus, and Seleucus was forced to flee from Syria to Mopsuestia in Cilicia, where he set up his court, allegedly in luxurious style.

However, the most famous of these was the central region of the Peninsula roughly bounded on the west by the mountains of the Hejaz and Yemen and to the east by the historical region of Bahrain and the north by Iraq and Syria.

However, they withdrew from the government citing inability to discuss issues over the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

However, Syrian opposition blocked implementation of the 17 May 1983 Lebanese-Israeli accord on the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon.

However, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad ( who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid ), the Palestinian fighters crossed the border into Lebanon to join PLO forces in that country, where they set up their new headquarters.

However, Cypriot politicians have frequently spoken out against Israeli military raids in the Palestinian territories as well as the 2006 Lebanon War, during which Cyprus was forced to manage a heavy flow of refugees and aid out of and in to Lebanon.

However, in modern day Lebanon, Cadmus is still revered and celebrated as the ' carrier of the letter ' to the world.

However Weinberger said there would be no change in the US's Lebanon policy and aborted the mission, reportedly because of his concerns that it would harm US relations with other Arab nations.

However, neither Syria nor Lebanon adopted the committee's suggestion, and neither country took any action along the suggested lines.

However, both the prime minister and president stated that Lebanon does have a claim to the area.

However, when the WJC brought the Arab League document before the ECOSOC, its president Charles H. Malik, a representative of Lebanon to the UN, refused to bring it to the floor.

However, in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the village was captured by the Israel Defense Forces in Operation Hiram on October 29, by which time a large part of Tarshiha's Arab population had fled to Lebanon.

However, in 1941 British forces successfully fought Vichy forces for control of Syria and Lebanon, thus removing the threat of invasion from the north, at least as long as German armies in Eastern Europe could be held back by the Red Army and thus unable to easily advance towards the Near East from the north.

However a more serious challenge occurred after the Syrian invasion of Lebanon in 1976.

However, the French ambassador to Lebanon, Bernard Emié, backed her explanation that she did not hear " the offending remarks " – the discussion took place via an interpreter supplied by the Lebanese parliament.

However, in the 2001 book Manipulations Africaines, he was accused by the French journalist Pierre Péan of having deliberately ignored evidence pointing to Lebanon, Syria and Iran in order to put the blame on Libya.

However, the delegation from Lebanon would not train in view of the Israeli team, and insisted some sort of barrier be placed between them.

However, an article in The New Yorker recounts that Jong ’ s sister, Suzanna Daou ( née Mann ), identified herself at a 2008 conference as the reluctant model for Isadora Wing, calling the book “ an exposé of my life when I was living in Lebanon ”.

However, Greater Lebanon included in addition to Mount Lebanon other mainly Muslim regions that were not part of the Maronite Mutasarrifia, and hence the word " greater.

However, although Syria, at the time occupying much of Lebanon, supported Al-Hoss, and although Al-Hoss's government was already established and in operation, most of the international community dealt with administrations on both sides of the Green Line and recognized both as Lebanon's prime ministers even though, constitutionally speaking, Aoun was the lawfully appointed prime minister and acting president of Lebanon.

However, a large portion of the township has been annexed into South Lebanon, Lebanon, and Mason.