The Ottoman Empire, which imploded in the wake of World War I, controlled a vast geographical region known as Greater Syria. Greater Syria had no legal basis but everyone was able to identify it.
After that, they rebranded several times, and in 2017, began using the name Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which in Arabic means Organization for the Liberation of Greater Syria. It was part of what the ...
In fact, the scale of the challenge facing Syria is greater than that which confronted Libya in 2011. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown after less than a year of conflict that cost ...