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

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 ...

This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic ... of 2013, Syria’s bloody and complex civil war had displaced some nine million men, women, and children (view map).

Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning ... Western powers of trying to redraw the map of the region.

As rebels in Syria make new advances against government ... that the Middle East remains divided on the civil war, with local geography playing a significant role in how states reacted.

Turkey's president says it aims to "prevent the creation of a terror corridor" Turkey's military launched a cross-border operation against Kurdish-led forces in Syria ...

Syria’s civil war obliterated their neighborhoods ... This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A wedding at Riga Palace in Aleppo is the first celebration ...