Over the past four years, Syrian government forces and Russians have repeatedly bombed northwest regime-held areas, killing hundreds. The map below shows the territorial control of various groups ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made it so unstable. Syria’s cities are among the oldest in the world, but the concept of Syria as a country ...

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 ...

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.

Saleh told the magazine. “But more than livestreaming it was a live screaming,” he said, with “disconnected thoughts” about Syria and militant and ethnic groups there. Mr. al-Hamada’s ...

The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...

Live updates on the downfall of Assad Watch: BBC reports from inside Damascus What has just happened in Syria? Analysis: End of Assad rule will reshape region's balance of power The fall of the ...