Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning advance that has expanded the territory under their control ... redraw the map of the region.

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

The departure of Bashar al-Assad after 24 years in power has left the Syrian state in disarray, with numerous factions each vying for influence and control over territory, while foreign powers ...

These maps help explain the offensive and what is happening on the ground. Between 25 and 35 million ethnic Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia.

More than a decade of civil war, proxy battles and an invasion by Islamic State terrorists have left Syria carved up into different zones of control. The government now controls more than 60 ...