Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,629,148 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 210,941 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $858 million (FY00 est.); note - based on official budget data that may understate actual spending
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 5.9% (FY00)
Transnational Issues Syria
Disputes - international:
Golan Heights is Israeli-occupied; Lebanon claims Shaba'a farms in
Golan Heights; Syrian troops have been stationed in Lebanon since
October 1976; Syria protests Turkish hydrological projects
regulating upper Euphrates waters; Turkey is quick to rebuff any
perceived Syrian claim to Hatay province
Illicit drugs:
a transit point for opiates and hashish bound for regional and
Western markets
This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003
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