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Syria was a country in Asia on Earth.
Saladin was the Sultan of Syria and Egypt. (TV: "The Lion")
In 1957, archaeologist Edgar Nelson-Stanley discovered the Gorgon talisman in Syria. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon)
The British Army and United States of America invaded Syria and overthrew the dictator, before handing power to the United Nations. British forces were still occupying it in 2005, when veteran Colonel Robert Dalton was pulled out on short notice to act as head of UNIT in Colonel Ross Brimmicombe-Wood's absence. Dalton would later defend the action, retorting the dictator was a threat "to democracy and the entire West[ern world]". During the ICIS coup, one pundit pointed to Anglo-American action in Syria and Iraq were seen as the cause of a suicide bombing. (AUDIO: Time Heals, The Longest Night)
Some time before 2040, Xin Chun built dirty bombs for an al-Qa'ida cell in Syria. (PROSE: The Nuclear Option)