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Turkey and its rebel allies have connected two pieces of territory they hold in the northeast, while the Syrian military has deployed in a narrow strip along most of the rest of the border, creating buffer between Turkey and Kurdish YPG fighters.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline – November 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
After the sudden US withdrawal and subsequent Turkish intervention against Kurdish YPG fighters, our map now shows which territory is controlled by Turkey-affiliated forces, plus which has come under joint SDF and Syrian government control.
For the first time, government forces have captured a major town on the rebel side of the of would-be buffer zone set up last year by Turkey and Russia.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline – September 2019 Full Article »
The Assad government is working at chipping away land from the rebel stronghold of Idlib province, making modest progress around the town of Khan Shaykhun.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline – August 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
The past month and a half have seen continued fighting and many small changes to territorial control around the edges of the rebel-held area in Syria’s northwest, while the so-called “Islamic State” remains active in the central desert.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline – July 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
The Assad government has begun a new push against the rebel enclave in Idlib – in defiance of buffer zone arrangements – while the so-called “Islamic State” has reportedly captured a new town in the central desert.
Even as Syria’s civil war gradually winds down, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has driven the so-called “Islamic State” out of the last town the group governed in Syria.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline: IS Loses Last Town – March 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
The so-called “Islamic State” has continued to lose ground to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with its territory now reduced to a single town along the Euphrates River and some remote desert areas to the west.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline – January 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
The Assad government has eliminated the last pocket of so-called “Islamic State” (IS) control in western Syria, while the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have driven the group out of a town in the east and away from the border with Iraq.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline: IS Loses Western Enclave – December 2018 Full Article »
A demilitarized buffer zone has gone into partial effect along front lines between government and rebel forces in Syrian’s northwest, while in the southeast the so-called “Islamic State” has managed to reverse some of its recent losses near the Iraqi border.