Editing Foreign relations of Syria (section)

==International disputes==
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*Western [[Golan Heights]] with [[Israel]]; 
*dispute with upstream riparian [[Turkey]] over Turkish water development plans for the [[Tigris]] and [[Euphrates]] rivers
*separation of the [[Hatay State]] and subsequent incorporation into the Turkish state
*dispute with Turkey concerning the [[Turkish occupation of North Syria]]
*dispute with the [[United States]] over the [[American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war|American-led intervention]] and occupation of Syrian territory
*illicit drugs: a transit point for [[opiates]] and [[hashish]] bound for regional and Western markets, as well as [[captagon]]<ref name="Chulov 2021">{{cite web | last=Chulov | first=Martin | title='A dirty business': how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state | website=The Guardian | date=7 May 2021 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/drug-captagon-turning-syria-into-narco-state | access-date=11 June 2021}}</ref>