By the end of 2017, 74 countries were said to have joined the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria. In Syria, the air campaign began in September 2014.

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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 ...

The radical Sunni Muslim group has seized many towns and cities in both Syria and Iraq since last year. Here's an animated map showing its gains since the start of 2013.

The six maps below attempt to show how Iraq and Syria came into being as modern states and the internal and external forces that have shaped them since then. 1 - A SECRET DEAL ...

"Thomas's maps are one of the best published on what's going on in Syria and Iraq." At the start of their correspondence, Van Ostaeyen didn't know Van Linge's age and was impressed when he found ...

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 crackdown on protests against Syrian ...

The maps were published at the same time that ISIS announced the creation of a caliphate, or Islamic state, spanning the territory they control in Iraq and Syria.

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 ...

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 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 ...