This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic ... of 2013, Syria’s bloody and complex civil war had displaced some nine million men, women, and children (view map).

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Syria’s civil war obliterated their neighborhoods ... This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A wedding at Riga Palace in Aleppo is the first celebration ...