The maps were published at the same time that ISIS announced the creation of a caliphate, or Islamic state, spanning the territory they control in Iraq and Syria. However, there have been reports ...

As this animated map shows, the extremist Islamist group ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has made major gains since it was created early last year with the goal of establishing an ...

On the other hand, it must be noted that some of the wide areas shown on the map that ISIS supposedly controls is just empty desert, and the same can be said for much of the non-ISIS controlled ...

As the below map of Syria from June 28th by Canada-based Syria conflict observer @KaryBDamoid demonstrates, ISIS has nabbed oil and gas fields as it advances across Iraq and Syria: ISIS now ...

In light of that, Croft and her team also shared a map showing where ISIS' footprint across Iraq and Syria overlaps with oil infrastructure. The lighter gray areas show ISIS operational spheres ...

This week's advances by the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) in Iraq and Syria are some of the most successful campaigns for the extremist group since it rampaged into Iraq last summer.

The worse the ISIS crisis gets ... The Kurds, meanwhile, are legally autonomous in Iraq and functionally so in Syria. This map, then, is not so much just idle speculation anymore; it's something ...

down to the farming towns south of Baghdad—roughly a third of the territory of both [Iraq and Syria]. The Economist's map shows where ISIS is present in, controlling, or contesting territory—a ...

The US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) says 98% of territory once claimed by the jihadist group across Iraq and Syria has been recaptured. Iraq's government announced in ...

ISIL, also known as ISIS, no longer holds towns and cities, but its fighters still operate in the desert regions around the Iraq-Syria border. Iraq’s military has launched another offensive to ...

Isis, the jihadist group synonymous with ... It announced the construction of a "caliphate" stretching from Aleppo in Syria, to Diyala in Iraq, and now occupies a large area across both countries.

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate ...