A series of rocket and drone attacks from Iranian-backed proxies in Syria and Iraq have demonstrated how violence in Gaza threatens to tip into conflict elsewhere. In all, there have been at least ...

This Animated Map Of ISIS Expansion In Syria, Iraq And Beyond Is Unsettling. By Tyler Rogoway February 2, 2016 7:50 pm EST. We love maps and infographics at Foxtrot Alpha, and ...

The Syrian military has now began to bomb the jihadist group both within Syria and Iraq. Iran has also sent 2,000 advanced troops into Iraq, while further increasing assistance to Shiite militias ...

Iraq and Syria: the situation in six maps. Maher Mughrabi 08:13, Sep 03 2014. In recent weeks the long-running Syrian civil war - which began after a brutal ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) lists 10 world heritage sites in Syria and Iraq. Of those 10, it says nine are currently in danger – and not just ...

A new actor, ISIS, or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (the Levant), emerged in April 2013. It’s composed of a few thousand foreign militants, battle-hardened from waging an insurgency in Iraq.

Iraq and Syria is no longer exist as coherent, unitary states. By now, followers of events in the Middle East have grown used to maps that show how ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, the Assad ...

A map shows the Republic of Iraq, with major cities, rivers and lakes marked. CIA. The conflict became so serious that, in 2010, a scenario drawn up by the U.S.-led Western NATO military alliance ...

Map of Sykes–Picot Agreement. Royal Geographical Society, 1910-15. Signed by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, 8 May 1916. Public Domain. Syria and Iraq are no more. They have ceased to be ...

Syria and Iraq are not merely a pair of problematic shapes on a map, and the agreements that followed the First World War, in drawing the borders, did not create modern states out of thin air ...