While large portions of central Syria are simply classified by the ISW as "lost regime territory," and without clear proprietors, the region near the tripoint border with Jordan and Iraq is still ...

The border crossing, which connects the town of Abu Kamal in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province to Iraq's al-Qaim district in Anbar province, was closed in early December, but was temporarily opened to ...

They carved up the Middle East map with ... media, Syria today feels more like the early excitement of the Arab Spring (2011), which quickly turned into an Arab Winter of repression. Iraq, another ...