More than a century after Arab revolutionaries blew up the Ottomans’ prized Hejaz Railway, located in the geographic heart of ...

And, alongside news of Turkish jets bombing Kurdish forces in Syria and engaging in mock dogfights ... even crudely drawn, maps of Turkey with new and improved borders. Turkey won’t be annexing ...

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 ...

What is striking about the present map of Syria is how closely it resembles ... Until 1918, it was the chief town of an Ottoman vilayet of Syria extending from Hama in central Syria to Aqaba ...

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 ...

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 ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital. The station was an essential link between Europe and ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...

The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years ... delegates from over 32 countries convened to negotiate the terms for peace. For the Ottoman Empire, which had joined the losing side in ...

WASHINGTON, May 6. -- United States Consul G. Bie Ravndal at Beirut makes the following report concerning the Syria-Ottoman Railway Company: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Chemical Weapons ...

and greater Syria. That is to say, they aren’t maps of the Ottoman Empire, which was substantially larger, or the entire Muslim world or the Turkic world. They are maps of Turkey, just a little bigger ...