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Israel has pushed troops further into parts of southern Syria, citing the need to secure its borders from armed groups as ...

Data as of Dec. 3, 2024. On Nov. 26, Syrian rebels launched a surprise offensive, attacking from areas to the north and northwest of Aleppo. They swept into the city on Nov. 29-30, forcing out ...

The UAE has also condemned Israel’s move into the demilitarised area. Israel has said that it does not intend to stay there and calls the incursion into Syrian territory a limited and temporary ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar stated that the military undertook "targeted and temporary control of certain areas near the border to prevent an Oct. 7 scenario from Syria," referring to the ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... the regime had largely quashed the rebels. Two areas escaped its control: Kurdish-held territory in the east and ...

Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling ... and other government-held areas of Syria.

Protests erupted across Syria overnight in areas dominated by the Alawite minority after videos spread of militants desecrating an Alawite shrine. Alawites are seen as having been loyal to the ...

The rebel offensive in Syria, which led to the rapid fall of Assad ... This document will map these four principal entities, detailing their composition and ideological inclinations.

The map below shows the territorial control ... operations command centre that has been operating in the area for the past years. Syrian authorities say three ISIL fighters killed and several ...