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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the map below Bjorn has highlighted the special geographical look of the present conflict in Syria. As can be seen, the two largest cities – Damascus and Aleppo – are placed relatively far ...

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 ...

Map of Sykes–Picot Agreement. Royal Geographical Society, 1910-15. Signed by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, 8 May 1916. Public Domain. Syria and Iraq are no more. They have ceased to be ...

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 ...

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.

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

Four American adversaries gained under Syria's new geography. Mr. al-Assad's control expanded. Iran, a long-time Syrian ally, could gain a long supply route to its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.