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Watching War: Online Mapmakers Chart Syrian Conflict Amateur cartographers report on the shifting battle lines to create maps that are among the most accurate and up-to-date reports on the ...
Clashes that shook southern Syria this week killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drew in an array of local and ...
A new atlas by "guerrilla cartographers" explores the importance of water in everything from ancient mythology to modern warfare.
Assad's forces now have a more expansive geographical footprint than at any time over the past half decade.
The American Geographical and Statistical Society held a meeting last evening, at their rooms, in Clinton Hall, Rev. Dr. HAWKS, the President, in the chair. There was a full attendance.
With Syria once again in the news for all the worst reasons, “The Cave” reminds us of the horrors of a situation we have perhaps become numb to and shows us the unforgettable people who don ...
Reporter Anne Barnard writes about Damascus in the March issue of National Geographic. She tells NPR's Arun Rath there's a lot to learn from life in the capital about the future of the Syrian state.
A new bus service linking Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeast with the government-held west, unthinkable before Islamic State was driven from the area, is raising hopes of renewed commerce ...
This suggests a deeper Israeli engagement in Syria, shifting from merely redrawing the geographic map to actively reshaping Syria's political landscape.
The interests of outsiders, not those of the battered, bloodied and belittled peoples of Iraq and Syria, drive this brutal political theatre.