These maps help explain the offensive and what is happening on the ground. Between 25 and 35 million ethnic Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia.

Haunting satellite images are starting to come through, showing the level of destruction left behind in Turkey by the series of earthquakes that devastated the region near its border with Syria.

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Turkey struck on Monday, killing thousands of people and devastating a densely populated region of southern Turkey and northern Syria.

A new earthquake fault mapping study provides compelling evidence of seismic hazards in Turkey and Syria following the ... teams designed high-resolution maps that exposed concealed faults with ...