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While control lines remain stable between government and rebel forces, the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) has lost its last firmly-held desert outpost. Map now shows areas of dispersed IS operational presence.
Though control lines have changed only subtly since May, Somalia’s federal-aligned forces have driven Al Shabaab from Kurtunwarey, the first district capital captured in battle by either side since 2018.
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – October 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »
For the first time, our Iraq control map illustrates which areas of northern Iraq are controlled by Turkey as part of its campaign to defeat PKK rebels.
Estimates of so-called “Islamic State” (IS) control in Syria have shrunk to include only a single gas field, while joint Russian-Turkish peacekeepers have begun patrolling the front lines between rebels and the Assad government.
Syria Control Map & Report: Frontlines Stable – July 2020 Full Article »
Amid Turkish military support of Libya’s western-based GNA faction, the eastern-based LNA has lost its footholds in Tripoli and been driven almost completely out of the country’s northwest.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline: Tables Turned in Tripoli – June 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »
Libya’s Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has continued to gain ground in the west amid a major withdrawal by the rival Libyan National Army (LNA).
Somalia’s pro-federal coalition has made small gains against Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab, while deadly infighting has erupted in Jubaland state, and the veteran ASWJ militia has been forcibly dissolved.
New & Improved: Somalia Control Map & Timeline – May 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »
Heavy fighting over the greater Tripoli area has continued between the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) – the latter now backed up by the Turkish military and allied rebels from Syria.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline: GNA Takes Sabratha – April 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »
Forces loyal to the Assad government have made major gains in and around rebel-held Idlib province, reestablishing government control along the entire Damascus-Aleppo highway for the first time in eight years.
In rebel-dominated Idlib province, Syrian army forces have pushed through the eastern side of Turkey and Russia’s mostly-defunct buffer zone, nearly reaching the rebel stronghold of Marat al-Numan.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline – January 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »