Syria War Map Shows Who Controls Country's Regions. Story by John Feng • 2mo. T he departure of Bashar al-Assad after 24 years in power has left the Syrian state in disarray, ...

Map of Syria showing areas controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, Kurds and Syrian Democratic Forces, ... Arab states bring Syria's Assad back into fold .

A regime air strike killed Syrian photographer Anas Alkharboutli, who was working for German news agency dpa, near the city of Hama. Alkharboutli, 32, had long documented Syria’s 13-year war.

The map below shows the territorial control of various groups as of December 3. ... Syrian Democratic Forces: This Kurdish-dominated, United States-backed group controls parts of eastern Syria.

A visual guide to the latest developments after Syrian rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad 13 years after the start of the country's civil war.

It says some 900 US troops are in eastern Syria, alongside the Kurdish SDF forces, to ensure the Islamic State group does not take advantage of the fallout from the rebellion.

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during its civil war, the country became something of a narco state. The regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad earned billions by trafficking in the drug Captagon.