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 ...

Foreign policy maven Steve Clemons is pretty sure he could find Syria on a map. "But don't test me on Sub-Saharan Africa," he says. He argues that insofar as we're going to test people's geography ...

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Syria, a bus ride shows shifting map of war. By Rodi Said. May 18, 2017 11:15 AM ... "Any move that helps geographic contact between Syrian regions with the knowledge of the Syrian state is ...