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 ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

Here’s a look at that history, with maps as a guide ... spanning not only today’s Syria but also the modern-day states of Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel. The Ottomans dominated ...