Since 6 February 2012, Poland serves as the protecting power of the United States in Syria.

Since approximately 10, 000 BC Syria was one of the centers of Neolithic culture ( PPNA ), where agriculture and cattle breeding appeared for the first time in the world.

Since 1967, most of the Golan Heights territory of southwestern Syria has been under Israeli occupation.

Since the ongoing civil war of 2011, and associated killings and human rights abuses, Syria has been increasingly isolated from the countries in the region, and the wider international community.

Since achieving independence in 1946, Syria has harbored a lingering resentment and this issue has continued to be an irritant in Syrian-Turkish relations.

Since 2004, Syria has accepted the import of apples from farmers in the Golan Heights, territory which it claims, through the Quneitra crossing.

Since, however, his power was not well enough grounded to allow an attack on Syria, Antiochus considered that he might leave Achaeus for the present and renew his attempt on Ptolemaic Syria.

Since he had friendly relations with Zenobia, the separatist queen of Palmyra ruling in Syria, he maintained his occupancy of the bishop's house in Antioch for another four years.

Since the restoration of constitutional rule in 1989 PSP was the major ally of Syria in Lebanon and its leader Walid Jumblatt was in close relations with the Syrian Army and intelligence generals in Lebanon, namely Ghazi Kenaan and also with the Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam.

Since its inception in 1928 the movement has officially opposed violent means to achieve its goals, with some exceptions such as in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or to overthrow secular Ba ' athist rule in Syria ( see Hama massacre ).

Since the early twentieth century, some rapproachment has taken place between these and the Eastern Orthodox Churches, particularly in Syria.

Since most 19th and early 20th century Middle Eastern immigrants to English-speaking countries were Christians from Syria and Lebanon, this may be the origin of the English usage of the final / i /.

Since the end of Syria ’ s occupation of Lebanon in 2005, the Kataeb Party has attracted once again new generations and has regained its role as one of the major political actors in Lebanon.

Since 1920 and until the independence of Syria in 1944, the area was under the jurdisdiction of the French Mandate.

Since its construction, the resulting diversion of water from the Jordan River has been a source of tension with Syria and Jordan.

Since October 2007, separatists and Caucasus Front soldiers led by Dokka Umarov and Akhmed Yevloyev have claimed all of the North Caucasian regions from Karachay – Cherkessia to the Caspian Sea as part of their territory invaded by Russia during the 18th century that expelled most of the Caucasians towards Turkey, Bulgaria, Syria, and Jordan.

Since the 1960s, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia had welcomed exiled teachers from Syria, Egypt, and Jordan, so that by the early 1970s it was common to find many Saudi high school and university teachers who had become involved with exiled dissident members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Since then it is thought Syria has one of the most advanced chemical weapons programs in the Middle East

Since 1966, Syria had obtained most of its military equipment from the Soviet Union.

Since 1966, a large Soviet military presence developed in Syria.

Since the commission had a very " maximalist " view of Syriawhat would today encompass Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and the Gaza Stripit pointed out that a majority of Syrians were against the formation of a Jewish state.

Since the nearest Axis bases were on Rhodes, the Allies realised that the plane had refueled in Vichy French controlled Syria or Lebanon.

Since the mid 1980s, Syria has built a considerable number of seasonal storage dams within the headwaters of the Yarmouk River drainage basin.

Since Fire Temple was at least partially built to conform to the dimensions of the cliff alcove in which it was built, it is neither round in form nor truly subterranean like other structures defined as kivas

Since the time of Pāṇini, at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of their block structure, and described how sentences are recursively built up from smaller phrases, and eventually individual words or word elements.

Since prehistory, they have also been built as sepulchral monuments, or used for defensive, hunting, ceremonial, astronomical and other purposes.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

Since the middle of the 1820s, numerous works comprising coke blast furnaces as well as puddling and rolling mills were built in the coal mining areas around Liège and Charleroi.

Since Zambia's independence, two dams have been built on the Kafue River: the Kafue Gorge Dam and the Itezhi-Tezhi Dam.

Since the pulse energy is equal to the average power divided by the repetition rate, this goal can sometimes be satisfied by lowering the rate of pulses so that more energy can be built up in between pulses.

Since the discovery of the original longships in the 1800s many boat builders have built many replicas.

Since Maeshowe is the largest and most sophisticated example of the Maeshowe " type " of tomb, archaeologists have suggested that it is the last of its class, built around 2800 BC.

Since processors are built to interpret and process digital data, i. e. 1s and 0s, they are not able to do anything with the analog signals that may be sent to it by a device.

Since Matthew 24 begins with Jesus visiting the Jerusalem Temple and pronouncing that " there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down " ( vs. 3 ), preterists see nothing in Scripture to indicate that another Jewish temple will ever be built.

Since then, Languedoc has built exclusively for the two, and his designs and traditional wood choices have given Phish a unique instrumental identity.

Since 2004, the conserved stone has been on display in a specially built case in the centre of the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery.

Since the production of high-quality semiconductor materials was still decades away, Lilienfeld's solid-state amplifier ideas would not have found practical use in the 1920s and 1930s, even if such a device were built.

Since Matthew 24 begins with Jesus visiting the Jerusalem Temple and pronouncing that " there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down " ( vs. 3 ), preterists see nothing in Scripture to indicate that another Jewish temple will ever be built.

Since 2007, digital cameras started being manufactured with the face recognition feature built in.

* Since its construction in 1999, it has been a prominent feature in the title sequence of the popular soap opera EastEnders, having been built in that area of London.

Since DocBook was built originally as an application of SGML, the DTD was the only available schema language.

Since World War II, the city has grown considerably when new neighbourhoods such as Overvecht, Kanaleneiland, Hoograven and Lunetten were built.

Since the 1980s, Portland, Oregon has built all three types of system: a high capacity light rail system in dedicated lanes and rights-of-way, a low capacity streetcar system integrated with street traffic, and an aerial tram system.

Since the World Sportscar Championship was conceived there have been various regulations regarding bodywork, engine style and size, tyres and aerodynamics to which these cars must be built.

Since virtually all video game consoles and arcade cabinets designed and built after 1980 were true digital machines ( unlike the analog Pong clones and derivatives ), some of them carried a minimal form of BIOS or built-in game, such as the ColecoVision, the Sega Master System and the SNK Neo Geo.

Since much of the modern city and its environs is built over Roman remains, it is still not uncommon to unearth Roman artifacts several miles away.