Hafez al- Assad12 October 1973
Faces an Israeli counteroffensive pushing Syrian forces back toward Damascus.
Syria · Warfare / Yom Kippur War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Faces an Israeli counteroffensive pushing Syrian forces back toward Damascus.
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