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 ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made it so unstable.

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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).

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.

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmed al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...