Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 2,182,608 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 177,946 (1998 est.)

Military expenditures-dollar figure: $800 million-$1 billion (1997 est.); note-based on official budget data that understate actual spending

Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 8% (1995 est.)

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Disputes-international: Golan Heights is Israeli occupied; Hatay question with Turkey; dispute with upstream riparian Turkey over Turkish water development plans for the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; Syrian troops in northern, central, and eastern Lebanon since October 1976

Illicit drugs: a transit point for opiates and hashish bound for regional and Western markets

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