SYRIA WAS once a thriving hub of diverse merchant cities. During the Islamic Golden ... foreign powers. Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made ...

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.

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 ...