Here’s a look at that history, with maps as a guide. Situated between some of history’s great empires, the land known as Syria today has ... the fall of the Ottoman Empire—made a secret ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... Aleppo were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets, were important ...

Powell urged Assad to back the road map, saying that the United ... Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, Syria was administered by the French until independence ...

From the Islamic caliphate to the Ottoman Empire ... This historic map shows that the tribes had taken Syrian land and northern Iraqi ground in its first effort. A later expansion under Suleiman ...