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Recent changes to Al Shabaab territorial control have been clustered in areas such as Hiran and Lower Juba, while heavy fighting has broken out between Somaliland and Puntland, and the ASWJ militia has merged with the Galmudug state government.
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – June 2018 (Subscription) Full Article »
The rebel-held “Zone 2” enclave around Rastan has been eliminated by the pro-Assad coalition, which also now controls all of Damascus and its suburbs for the first time since 2011, having captured the so-called “Islamic State” enclave in the city.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline: Rebels Lose Rastan Enclave – May 2018 (Subscription) Full Article »
The Kurdish YPG has mostly withdrawn from its northwestern Afrin enclave amid a Turkish-led assault, while three rebel enclaves around Damascus have been completely wiped off the map by government offensives.
Pro-federal forces have scored some victories against Al Shabaab, such as capturing the district center of Sablale, though they’ve lost ground in other places. Meanwhile, self-proclaimed Khatumo state has signed an agreement to merge with Somaliland.
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – March 2018 (Subscription) Full Article »
Pro-Assad offensives have divided the Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave near Damascus into three separate pieces, while the Turkish-led intervention has joined rebel-held areas to cut off Kurdish YPG access to Turkey’s border.
The Turkish military has begun a cross-border campaign against Kurdish militias in Syria’s northwest, while pro-Assad forces have eliminated an enclave of the so-called “Islamic State” south of Aleppo and advanced in rebel-controlled Idlib province.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline – February 2018 Full Article »
The past month has seen major advances by pro-Assad forces against rebels in the country’s northwest, even as the so-called “Islamic State” makes modest gains in the same area.
By our estimates, IS territory in Syria is now divided into seven separate pieces: four in the eastern desert near Iraq, where the campaign against the group is focused, and three scattered across the country’s west.
Early this month, the Syrian government – with support from Russia – completed its capture of Deir ez-Zor, the last major urban center controlled by IS anywhere in the world.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have completed their control of Raqqah, once capital city of the so-called “Islamic State”, and taken the country’s largest oil field, while government forces have captured the temporary IS headquarters of Mayadin.
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline: SDF Captures Raqqah – October 2017 (Subscription) Full Article »