Ahmed al-Shara said his government was discussing military support with Russia and Turkey, appealed for a lifting of ...

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As rebels in Syria make new advances against government ... that the Middle East remains divided on the civil war, with local geography playing a significant role in how states reacted.

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).

This suggests a deeper Israeli engagement in Syria, shifting from merely redrawing the geographic map to actively reshaping Syria's political landscape. This evolving situation reopens the ...