[PAR] [TLE] Foreign relations of Syria [SEP] Ensuring national security, increasing influence among its Arab neighbors, and securing the return of the Golan Heights, have been the primary goals of Syria's foreign policy.  At many points in its history, Syria has seen virulent tension with its geographically cultural neighbors, such as Turkey, Israel, Iraq, and Lebanon.  Syria enjoyed an improvement in relations with several of the states in its region in the 21st century, prior to the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War. [PAR] [TLE] Arab Spring [SEP] The Arab Spring, (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎ ‎ "ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī") also referred to as Arab revolutions (Arabic: الثورات العربية‎ ‎ "aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah"), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution.
[PAR] [TLE] Foreign relations of Syria [ SEP ] Ensuring national security , increasing influence among its Arab neighbors , and securing the return of the Golan Heights , have been the primary goals of Syria 's foreign policy . At many points in its history , Syria has seen virulent tension with its geographically cultural neighbors , such as Turkey , Israel , Iraq , and Lebanon . Syria enjoyed an improvement in relations with several of the states in its region in the 21st century , prior to the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War . [PAR] [TLE] Arab Spring [ SEP ] The Arab Spring , ( Arabic : الربيع العربي‎ ‎ " ar - Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī " ) also referred to as Arab revolutions ( Arabic : الثورات العربية‎ ‎ " aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah " ) , was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non - violent demonstrations , protests , riots , coups and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution .
When  did the revolutionary wave which  Syria enjoyed an improvement in relations with several of the states in its region in the 21st century, prior to began
When did the revolutionary wave which Syria enjoyed an improvement in relations with several of the states in its region in the 21st century , prior to began
17 December 2010
17 December 2010