Led by alleged terrorist sponsor Bashar al-Assad, for 10 points, name this country with capital at Damascus.
Though it's not Iraq, the Ba'ath party was founded in this nation, whose army conducted the 1982 Hama massacre against the Muslim Brotherhood. This country lost the Golan Heights during the Six Day War to its neighbor, Israel. Its cities of Deraa and Latakia have been under siege by its own (*) army during the Arab Spring. Led by alleged terrorist sponsor Bashar al-Assad, for 10 points, name this country with capital at Damascus.
Though it's not Iraq, the Ba'ath party was founded in this nation, whose army conducted the 1982 Hama massacre against the Muslim Brotherhood.
Syria (accept Syrian Arab Republic)