These are the rivers of Syria. Tributaries are listed under the river into which they flow.

Flowing into the Mediterranean

Afrin River The Afrin River ( ar, نهر عفرين ''Nahr ʻIfrīn''; ( ku, Çemê Efrînê; northern Syrian vernacular: ''Nahər ʻAfrīn''; tr, Afrin Çayı) is a tributary of the Orontes River in Turkey and Syria. It rises in the Kartal Mountains in ...

** Karasu * Nahr al-Kabir al-Shamali, or ''Northern Great River'' *

Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi The Nahr al-Kabir, also known in Syria as al-Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi ( ar, النهر الكبير الجنوبي, lit=the southern great river, by contrast with the Nahr al-Kabir al-Shamali) or in Lebanon simply as the Kebir, is a river in Syria ...

, or ''Southern Great River'' (On the border between Syria and Lebanon)

Flowing into the Persian Gulf by the Shatt al-Arab

Tigris The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the ...

(On the border between Syria and Iraq) *

Euphrates The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers''). Originating in Turkey, the Eup ...

** Khabur *** Wadi Radd *** Wadi Khnezir *** Wadi Jarrah ***

Jaghjagh River The Jaghjagh River ( ar, نهر جقجق ''Nahr Jaqjaq'', ''Nahr al-Jaghjagh'', or ''Nahr al-Hirmas'', tr, Çağ-çağ Deresi, syr, ܢܗܕܐ ܕܔܩܔܩ ''Nahro dJaqjaq'', ku, Çemê Nisêbînê or Cexcex) is a tributary of the Khabur River in ...

*** Wadi Khanzir *** Wadi Avedji ** Balikh ***

Wadi al-Kheder The Wadi al-Kheder is a tributary of the Balikh River in Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīy ...

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Wadi Qaramogh The Wadi Qaramogh is a tributary of the Balikh River in Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīya ...

Sajur River The Sajur River ( ar, نهر الساجور, Nahr as-Sājūr ; tr, Sacır Suyu) is a long river originating in Turkey and flowing into the Euphrates in Syria. It is the smallest of the three rivers joining the Euphrates in Syria, and the only o ...

Flowing into
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Aleppo basin

Quweiq The Queiq (Modern Standard Arabic: , ''Quwayq'', ; northern Syrian Arabic: ''ʾWēʾ'', ), with many variant spellings, known in antiquity as the Belus ( grc-gre, Βήλος, ''Bēlos''), Chalos and also known in English as the Aleppo Rive ...

Ghouta oasis

Barada , name_etymology = From ''barid'', meaning 'cold' in Semitic languages , image = Barada river in Damascus (April 2009).jpg , image_size = 300 , image_caption = Barada river in Damascus near the Four Seasons Hote ...

Al-Hijanah Lake

Awaj The Awaj ( ar, نهر الأعوج ''Nahr al-A‘waj'', literally 'crooked') is a river in Syria. It rises on the eastern slopes of Mount Hermon near Arnah, flows east for to the south of Damascus and terminates in the Buhairat al-Hijanah. The ...

Dead Sea

* Jordan River ** Yarmouk (On the border between Syria and Jordan) **

Banias River Banias River ( ar, نهر بانياس Nahr Baniyas; he, נחל חרמון Nahal Hermon) is a river in the Golan Heights. It is the easternmost of the three main northern tributaries of the Jordan River; together with the Dan River and the Snir S ...