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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In just two weeks, Syrian rebels have swept from their enclave in the north west to capture a string of major cities, before reaching the capital Damascus and toppling President Bashar al-Assad 13 ...