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 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).

In this "world," the people inhabiting Mesopotamia—what is now Iraq and part of Syria ... an ancient map that not only opens the door to understanding Babylonian cosmology and geography ...

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 ...

The outcomes of those diplomatic overtures will help shape the new political map of Syria and the power dynamics across the Middle East, a region that is being remade in the wake of Israel’s ...