In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
A look at a map of the BRI reveals that none of the belts ... economic and social levels.” Yet since then China-Syria bilateral trade has plummeted at an annualized rate of 22.49 percent ...
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.