In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved ... although the US did so unilaterally in 2019. In the northern city of Manbij there have been clashes between Turkish-backed forces ...

Here's a map showing who controls what now that Assad ... SDF forces were fighting for control of the strategic northern Syrian city of Manbij, before they reached a US-brokered ceasefire deal.

Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning advance ... Western powers of trying to redraw the map of the region.

In just two weeks, Syrian rebels have swept from their enclave in the north west to capture a string of major cities, before reaching the capital Damascus and toppling President Bashar al-Assad 13 ...