How Syria Could Be Permanently Ripped Apart, In Two Maps By Jeremy Bender 2014-02-21T18:49:31Z ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Like Syria, Iraq has critical internal divisions that drive its tensions and perceptions in ways that make ISIS only one security concern among many for most of its population. ... There is a reason ...

QARQASHAH, Iraq — In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous ...

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 ...

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 ...

From 1979-2003, Iraq was ruled by the tyrant Saddam Hussein, who persecuted the majority population until the U.S. invasion, which led to cycles of vengeance and war without America doing what was ...

While most of the 22 nations that make up the Arab world have been buffeted to some degree by the Arab Spring, the six most profoundly affected — Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen ...

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 ...