Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved? Syria, with a population of about 22 million people, is located on the east coast of the Mediterranean sea. It borders Turkey to the north ...

The collapse of the Assad regime has fragmented Syria's territory, with several armed groups now jostling for control and international players anxious to preserve their regional interests.

This document will map these four principal entities ... operated primarily in the Idlib region and northern Syria. They operate under the directives of the local rebel administration, known ...

The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...

Syrian rebels captured Hama, a strategic central city they had never managed to seize before. It was a major victory in their week-old advance across northern Syria. The insurgents said they were ...

The insurgents had been fighting to reach Hama since Tuesday, to encircle the city from the north, east and west, where they clashed with the Syrian army ... to redraw the map of the region.

In just two weeks, Syrian rebels have swept from their enclave in the north west to capture a string of major cities, before reaching the capital Damascus and toppling President Bashar al-Assad 13 ...