Note that Syrians of today aren’t the same.
Assyria is in what is now northern Iraq.
What is now Syria, in the Bronze age was a mixture of Urartu, Aram, Canaan speaking a Canaanite language that later split into Hebrew, Phoenicians, Canaanite, Aramaic etc.
Present day “Syrians” are a mix of those ancient people’s plus Romans, Greeks, mAcedonian, Arabs, Persians etc etc.
yes, mixtures but still really bright folks