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 Syrian troops who had withdrawn from Aleppo are regrouping.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

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 ...

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.

The map shows control divided between government forces, rebels with the ethnic Kurdish minority, rebels with the extremist Islamist group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), and the mainline ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Zalmay Khalilzad is a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan and the United Nations. The views expressed are his own. For more, watch a Fareed Zakaria GPS special, “Long ...

When Saddam launched the long Iran-Iraq war in 1980, Syria rallied to support the Persians. It was the only regional state to do so, forging a bond that has since served both states well.

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 ...

"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.