Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria since December 2024, averaging one every three to four days.

The Israeli army says two rockets have been fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), an independent organisation that has documented human rights ...

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 ...

An offensive by opposition forces in Syria is redrawing the map of areas controlled by the rebels, despite Russian-backed ...

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 ...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate ...

"The terrorist escalation reflects the far-reaching goals of dividing the region and fragmenting the countries in it and redraw the map in line with ... On Monday, Syrian and Russian air raids on ...

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.

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...