Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made it so unstable.

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).

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 ...