Somalia Control Map & Timeline: Al Shabaab in Retreat – January 2023 (Subscription) – Final Version
Somalia’s pro-federal alliance has captured several major towns from Al Shabaab, in its biggest gains against the group in almost a decade.
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Syria Control Map & Report – February 2022 (Subscription)
The so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS/ISIL) has continued a bloody insurgency in Syria’s central desert, while fighting between Kurdish- and Turkish-led forces has carried on sporadically, amid other intermittent conflicts.
Syria Control Map & Report – February 2022 (Subscription) Full Article »
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – December 2021
Revised and refined map of territorial control across Somalia, showing the situation as things stand amid the country’s ongoing federal elections crisis, plus the extent of the recent ASWJ resurgence.
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – December 2021 Full Article »
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – February 2021 (Subscription)
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 »
Syria Control Map & Report: Army Takes Last IS Stronghold – November 2020 (Subscription)
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.
Somalia Control Map & Timeline – October 2020 (Subscription)
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 »
Iraq Control Map & Timeline: Turkey Expands Control in North – August 2020 (Subscription)
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.
Syria Control Map & Report: Frontlines Stable – July 2020
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 »
New & Improved: Somalia Control Map & Timeline – May 2020 (Subscription)
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 »
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline: New Ceasefire Lines in Northwest – March 2020 (Subscription)
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.