In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Taking a deeper historical perspective, what is happening in Syria today looks very much like ... it had been superseded by the new Republic of Turkey, with its capital in Ankara.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Israel had launched nearly 500 airstrikes since rebel forces ousted al-Assad. Here are the locations they recorded: Turkey Al Hassakah Aleppo ...