"Map of situation in Syria from @rr0162," posted the X account Peter Corless, "incredible changes to the landscape not seen in years." However, the Syrian government has responded with force.

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.

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 in a map: Who controls what now that Assad is gone? By Audrey Courty. Topic: Unrest, Conflict and War. Thu 12 Dec Thursday 12 December Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 7:27pm.

Both are deeply invested in Syria, but they do not have the forces they had in 2015 and 2016 that were used to crush the insurgency. After Aleppo’s fall, Assad’s grip on power seems tenuous.

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 ...