French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon Army of the Levant and had helped it against the Arab nationalist uprisings. As in Al-Jazira Province, the French authorities refused to grant any autonomy status to the Golan Circassians. French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (; "") (1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire concerning Syria and Lebanon. The mandate system was supposed to differ from colonialism, with the governing country acting as a trustee until the inhabitants would be able to stand on their own. At that
Israel and state-sponsored terrorism Israel and state-sponsored terrorism The State of Israel has been accused of being a state-sponsor of terrorism. Several sovereign countries have officially alleged that Israel is a proponent of state-sponsored terrorism, including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. 1950–1951 Baghdad bombings refers to a series of bombings of Jewish targets in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951. There is a dispute around the true identity and objective of the offenders behind the bombings, and this issue remains unresolved. Two activists in the Iraqi Zionist underground were found guilty by an Iraqi court for a number of