President Trump on Wednesday brandished a striking map showing how the Islamic State’s presence in Syria has diminished since he took office, while vowing the deadly terrorist network will be ...

Syria War Map Shows Territory Captured as Rebels Advance. Published Dec 02, 2024 at 7:55 AM EST Updated Dec 02, 2024 at 10:51 AM EST. By . Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in ...

A visual guide to the latest developments after Syrian rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad 13 years after the start of the country's civil war.

Syria Map Shows Buffer Zone Amid Israel's Advances. Published Dec 10, 2024 at 9:39 AM EST Updated Dec 10, 2024 at 10:48 AM EST. By . Michael D. Carroll is a Newsweek Breaking News Editor based in ...

Syria war live tracker: Maps and charts. Here’s what the situation on the ground looks like as of December 11, 2024.

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and Jordan-backed militants in the south, among others.

A regime air strike killed Syrian photographer Anas Alkharboutli, who was working for German news agency dpa, near the city of Hama. Alkharboutli, 32, had long documented Syria’s 13-year war.

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

A visual guide to the latest developments after Syrian rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad 13 years after the start of the country's civil war.

Syria, with a population of about 22 million people, is located on the east coast of the Mediterranean sea. It borders Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west and south west, Iraq to ...