AH Challenge: Syria Wank

While browsing wikipedia, I came upon this, a map of "Greater Syria" as planned by a nationalist whose name escapes me. Though the map is from much later, your challenge is to construct a Syrian state covering as much of this area as possible with a POD after hmm, the Crimean War. Bonus points for extra plausibility!

 
I can get you most of it with the following PoD, after the end of the Ottoman Empire, Britain gets a larger share, exchanging Transjordan for Syria. Syria is united with Iraq as a British colony/mandate, then united with TransJordan/Lebanon at full independance as a United Arab Republic.
 
Keep France out of the former Ottoman Middle East after WWI (not sure exactly how to do that-probably have to get rid of the Sykes-Picot agreement somehow) and give it all to Britain. Britain makes it one unified state under King Faisal (like they originally promised him they would).

FYI, that map comes from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party
 
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