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Al Shabaab claims villages in disputed Puntland-Somaliland region, former ASWJ militia members seize a onetime stronghold, and our new review of available data brings improvements to the map’s accuracy.
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – February 2021 (Subscription) Full Article »
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 »
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 »
The Assad government has gained more ground against rebels in the northwest, while the latest Russia-Turkey deal has replaced the now-obsolete “buffer zone” with a new “security corridor” along the frontlines.
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 »
Despite few major changes to the lines of control since 2018, the so-called “Islamic State” (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIL) has reportedly been growing in power again in northern Iraq.
Iraq Control Map & Timeline: “Islamic State” Holdouts Still Present – January 2020 Full Article »