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This map focuses on Syrians because the Syrian refugee crisis is itself an important story, and also because it is representative of the broader refugee crisis. One of the first things you’ll ...
But to understand how things came to be this way, here are a few maps and charts that help to outline the very basics. 1) The number of Syrian refugees has been growing steadily for years The ...
The Trump administration is granting Syria a waiver from one crippling set of sanctions as well as easing restrictions on ...
Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning ... Western powers of trying to redraw the map of the region.
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 ...
Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved? 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 ...
Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made it so unstable. Syria’s cities are among the oldest in the world, but the concept of Syria as a country ...
As soon as tonight's show ended I rewound my DVR back to Rachel's interview with Richard Engel and tried to follow along with Google Maps to see ... satellite imagery of Syria is pretty detailed.
This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...
In the early hours of December 8, groups opposing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ... in the area in more than a decade. The map below shows the territorial control of various ...