Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning ... Western powers of trying to redraw the map of the region.

The heat map up top shows where the 500 most recent users clicked. A lot of them got it generally right (presumably, some number cheated), although, like Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, many seemed ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made it so unstable. Syria’s cities are among the oldest in the world, but the concept of Syria as a country ...

The U.S. fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase early Friday in response ... state in violation of international law.” This map shows the location of the Shayrat air base along ...