Possible Clues:

• Well-ventilated restaurants finally set up in the country
• Some hairy spiders back in country
• Country north of Jordan
• Aleppo locale
• Country, say, troika visited regularly
• The Euphrates divides it
• Nation in which people spend pounds
• Home of the Unesco World Heritage Site of Palmyra
• Site of a civil war since 2011
• Country has open society rising?