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 ...

The wars in Iraq and Syria have effectively merged into one sprawling conflict, especially in light of the massive blitz across northern and central Iraq by militant group ISIS and its affiliates ...

We love maps and infographics at Foxtrot Alpha, and animated ones are that much better. The video below depicting the expansion of ISIS controlled territory over time is especially interesting.

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 ...

France previously accounted for 412 fighters traveling to Iraq and Syria. The new data show that number has almost tripled, to 1,200. The Netherlands, Britain and Austria all accounted for about ...

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 ...