Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

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

The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...

Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved? Syria, with a population of about 22 million people, is located on the east coast of the Mediterranean sea. It borders Turkey to the north ...

Israel has pushed troops further into parts of southern Syria, citing the need to secure ... The advances are detailed in a map produced by the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise ...

The rebel offensive in Syria, which led to the rapid fall of Assad ... This document will map these four principal entities, detailing their composition and ideological inclinations.

Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have in recent weeks held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made it so unstable. Syria’s cities are among the oldest in the world, but the concept of Syria as a country ...

Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control. The Syrian Observatory ...

In the early hours of December 8, groups opposing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ... in the area in more than a decade. The map below shows the territorial control of various ...