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 ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved? Syria, with a population of about 22 million people, is located on the east coast of the Mediterranean sea. It borders Turkey to the north ...

Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control. The Syrian Observatory ...

Here’s a look at that history, with maps as a guide ... of the newly independent country of Turkey. Syria fell under French Vichy control during World War II. The end of the war brought a ...

“The whole world should remember that the Syrian people suffered the worst crimes of the 21st century,” a Syrian military photographer and defector – codenamed Caesar – told me in a rare ...