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

Here’s a look at that history, with maps as a guide ... of the newly independent country of Turkey. Syria fell under French Vichy control during World War II. The end of the war brought a ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of relative calm along the de facto border between the two countries.