Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved ... Israel seized the territory from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed it in 1981.

Before this December, Syria had largely been forgotten by the world. Initially, the 2011 revolution, which quickly morphed into a bloody civil war, grabbed headlines – first through revolt ...

2024 saw the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the escalation of the war in Ukraine, the sudden reignition of the Syrian civil war ...

Reported Control of Terrain in Syria (as of December 8, 2024; map and legend courtesy of the Institute for the Study of War) While many unknowns remain, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has begun ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A U.N. force of about 1,100 troops had patrolled the area since then.

(AP Photo) This is a locator map for Syria with its capital ... crimes against humanity and genocide since Syria’s civil war began in 2011. Petit highlighted the urgency of preserving documents and ...

During the war, the Kurds were able to establish an effectively autonomous, self-administered area in northeastern Syria, as they did in northern Iraq. Syria has almost 3 million Kurds.

Israeli strikes targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region overnight, a war monitor said Monday, calling them "the heaviest strikes" there in years. "Israeli warplanes launched ...

Syria's revolution began in 2011, largely in response to abuses committed under Assad and his father, Hafez. Upwards of ...