In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Syrian jets, joined by Russian warplanes, have intensified air attacks on Idlib and Aleppo to repel opposition ... killing hundreds. The map below shows the territorial control of various groups ...

Syria has for years been controlled by a patchwork of rebel groups including HTS in Idlib and Kurdish-led groups ... he had been given asylum in Russia. Map: Where is Syria and how are its ...

The road to Idlib, a remote corner in north-west Syria, still has the signs of the old front lines: trenches, abandoned military positions, rocket shells and ammunition. Until a little more than a ...

Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning ... under their control in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, which border Turkey, to mount the ...

How the rebels governed Idlib, in northwest Syria, offers insight into how they might rule the country. Experts and residents of Idlib describe their governance as pragmatic and influenced by both ...

In a later televised interview with Al Jazeera, caretaker Prime Minister Mohammad Al Bashir, who until this week ruled the small, conservative province of Idlib on the rebels’ behalf, appeared only ...