He drew his first map in January 2014, like Archicivilians, to have a better view of the situation in Syria. “When I began, maps were too simple and had poor quality,” he said.

In the recent conflicts in Iraq and Syria, water has often been used as a weapon. When ISIS seized the Fallujah Barrage, a dam on the Euphrates River, in 2014, they raised the floodgates to ...

While the Syrian government may not yet fully control those areas, its forces now have a more expansive geographical footprint than at any time during the past half decade — a direct result of ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

The same geographic preoccupations are visible now in Russia’s intervention in Syria on behalf of Putin’s ally, Bashar al-Assad. The Russians have a naval base in the port city of Tartus on ...

American Geographical Society Syria, the Druses and Maronites. Share full article. Oct. 26, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Russia's senior military officer Sergei Rudskoi sits below a map of Syria screened during a briefing at the Russian Defence Ministry headquarters in Moscow on April 14, 2018, following overnight ...

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.

AMMAN — In an effort to empower refugees, UNHCR Jordan is training and employing refugees in Zaatari camp in Geographic Informations Systems (GIS), through the programme RefuGIS.The programme, which ...

Maps showing the territorial battle for control of Syria, with information provided by the Syria Needs Analysis Project and the Institute for the Study of War.

Syria has witnessed remarkable developments in recent days, ... Israel's Strategic Shift In Syria: Redrawing The Map. Date. 2025-03-02 02:26:28. Share on Facebook; Tweet on Twitter ...

In Syria, a bus ride shows shifting map of war. By Rodi Said. May 18, 2017 11:15 AM ... "Any move that helps geographic contact between Syrian regions with the knowledge of the Syrian state is ...