along the Western portion of the country bordering Lebanon and the port cities of Litakia and Tartus, through to the capital, Damascus. The cities of Homs and Hama, two of Syria's largest by ...

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 ...