Government forces regroup. Syrian troops who had withdrawn from Aleppo are regrouping. Iranian-backed militias have entered ...

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 ...

In 1967, during the six-day war with its Arab neighbours, Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria, as well as other land in the region (see map 5). The Assads increasingly sought to challenge ...

Iraq is the war no one wants to remember. As an Iraqi American, I can never forget Heavy bombing in the area of the presidential compound in central Baghdad soon after the start of the war in ...

Instead, Iraq plunged into civil war. Libya and Syria soon followed. A gruesome, ultraradical “caliphate” seized territory and revenue from both Iraq and Syria.

Let us look at an ethnic map of Syria.The Alawites, Sunni Muslims and Kurds were all forced into countries whose boundaries benefit none of them. In Iraq, it is no different with the Sunni, Shia ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

Syrian insurgents have forced president Bashar al-Assad's army to retreat from the key city of Hama – a major victory after a lightning advance across the north Syria.

Four months into the war, fighting has spread from Gaza to Pakistan. By Alexander Smith, JoElla Carman and Jiachuan Wu Feb. 13, 2023 A drone strike in Beirut on Jan. 2 killed Hamas leader Saleh al ...

"Map of situation in Syria from @rr0162," posted the X account Peter Corless, "incredible changes to the landscape not seen in years." However, the Syrian government has responded with force.