In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The cities of Homs and Hama, two of Syria's largest by population, were also captured by HTS over the course of the campaign, alongside Idlib, under its control since 2017. To the north ...

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 ...

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.