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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...