The Invasion of Syria was a joint United Kingdom-United States invasion of Syria in the 2000s.
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the early 2000s, the United Kingdom and United States launched an invasion of Syria with the aim of toppling the country's President. The President led Syria like a dictatorship, and was regarded as a threat to democracy and the Western world.
At some point during the invasion, after the defeat of the Syrian Army, the President of Syria was accidentally killed by the occupying forces.
Colonel Robert Dalton led British forces during the invasion and subsequent occupation. Power was handed over to the United Nations, who subsequently addressed the population via television. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"])
Syria remained under occupation until at least 2005. (AUDIO: Time Heals [+]Loading...["Time Heals (audio story)"]) By then, three insurgent factions had risen and fought against the occupation. Colonel Dalton led a command against all three of them prior to being called back to London. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
During the ICIS coup, one pundit pointed to Anglo-American action in Syria and Iraq as the cause of a suicide bombing. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"])
Syria was considered to have an unstable political situation around this period. (PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness [+]Loading...["The Terror of the Darkness (short story)"]) By the 2010s, another war started in Syria that caused many to flee the country. (PROSE: The Stone House [+]Loading...["The Stone House (novel)"], AUDIO: Aliens Next Door [+]Loading...["Aliens Next Door (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the real world, no such invasion of Syria took place in the 2000s. The invasion of Syria mentioned in the UNIT audio series is analogous of the real world invasion of Iraq and its subsequent occupation, which had also been mentioned in DWU sources. Notably two significant parallels in this analogy are that in the early 21st century Syria and Iraq were the only two states ruled by Ba'athist regimes and each had a significant Kurdish minority population. Later sources, such as the novel The Stone House, would reference the real world Syrian Civil War in the 2010s.
The President of Syria, intended as a fictional Syrian stand-in for Saddam Hussein, was stated to have been "accidentally" killed during the occupation. Saddam Hussein was still alive and in custody at the time The Longest Night was released in 2005.