That fact is the basic story of how the map of the Arab/Muslim world was ... the six most profoundly affected — Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen — are all republics, rather than ...

The group seized control of many oil fields in Syria and Iraq, and sold oil on the black market. But revenue has fallen since IS lost control of oil-producing areas, external in northern Syrian ...

"The map tells a story," he told Business Insider. "ISIS is able to maintain territory because it's unopposed. But where it's opposed it loses territory, in both Iraq and Syria." The black ring ...

From the Islamic Caliphates to today's Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL) terrorist group ... up the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea and over west to East Asia and down the Arabian ...

And ISIS has a cross-regional dimension, a total vacuum in eastern Syria, and a collapsing state in Iraq working to its long-term advantage. The next time this map is updated, the black areas ...

Over the past four months, fighters from the Islamic State have targeted cities and areas in northern Iraq and Syria and massacred ... the Yazidis prompted the White House to order airstrikes ...

"Thomas's maps are one of the best published on what's going on in Syria and Iraq." At the start of their correspondence, Van Ostaeyen didn't know Van Linge's age and was impressed when he found ...

The world is now becoming accustomed to seeing images of the stark black-and-white flag whose bearers ... massacres and ethnic cleansing across Iraq and Syria. But what does the standard of ...

The group seized control of many oil fields in Syria and Iraq, and sold oil on the black market. But revenue has fallen since IS lost control of oil-producing areas, external in northern Syrian ...