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.

The regime in Damascus has lost control of Syria’s skies and its borders. Its foreign backers, Russia, Iran and its Shia ...

Such complexities are reflected in a 1935 map of Syria compiled by troops of the French Mandate. It shows the religious and ethnic communities of Syria just before the French gifted the Sanjak of ...

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Syria’s health minister says the number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes has risen to 18, with dozens more ...

At the start of the 20th century, most of Kurdistan was controlled by the Ottoman and Persian empires, which kept tight control over the Kurds and other ethnic ... Redraw the Map After the fall ...

Such a map is important because physical memorialization of mass grave sites may be difficult where political and ethnic ...

Syrian state media is reporting a series of Israeli strikes have hit multiple areas in central Syria, killing at least four ...

Even with a U.S. official confirming it was a planned operation by Israel, multiple theories have emerged Tuesday around how ...

Syrian air defences confronted an "aggression" targeting multiple locations in Syria's central region, state media said late on Sunday, following reports of an explosion heard in the same area.

reader comments A massive wave of coordinated pager explosions across Lebanon and Syria around 3:30 pm local time today has killed at least eight people and injured more than 2,700, according to local ...