Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... 1918 Damascus and Aleppo were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Such a conference cause also conceivably results in Syria being dissolved into smaller provinces divided between the different ethnic groups in the country, allowing each a degree of security and ...

AFPTV footage showed rebels pushing into Hama province in central Syria. Russia first intervened ... rebel advance a bid to 'redraw' regional map appeared first on HESPRESS English - Morocco ...