Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning ... Western powers of trying to redraw the map of the region.

An offensive by opposition forces in Syria is redrawing the map of areas controlled by the rebels, despite Russian-backed ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

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 ...