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As promised! Here's our new subscriber map of control in Syria AFTER the fall of Assad, including territory newly under Israel and so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS/ISIL). Plus handy timeline of events amid this seismic shift in Syrian geopolitics.

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Mapping control in Syria at this exact moment of disarray is unrealistic, and any attempts are likely misleading. But here's our new map showing the last day of resistance before Assad's govt collapsed.

Concise summary of events and detailed timeline included.

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We've published a new update to our Ukraine war control map series for paid subscribers, showing what parts of Ukraine were controlled by Russia in February 2024, plus timeline of events since the previous October.

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We've updated and majorly revised our classic explainer on the geography of "Olympic Nations"! Learn which countries are in the Olympics, which are shut out, and which "Nations" aren't independent countries!

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Last month's subscriber update to our map-illustrated Israel/Palestine territorial control report.

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And here's the current update to our Sudan control map, which is free for all readers!

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For our subscribers: Detailed map and report on territorial control in Sudan's civil war in December 2023 and January 2024.

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New free article! Since two years ago, Turkey's government wants you to call it "Türkiye". Check out our plain English guide to what happened and why, how it started, and how it's going.

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Two weeks ago we published a subscriber update to our overview map of territorial administration in Israel/Palestine, with a detailed timeline of events since December.

The map is still basically correct today, pending the possible Israeli offensive on Rafah.

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Free sample of our Ukraine map report series, which we'll be bringing back up to date soon.

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Free article: Our latest Israel/Palestine control map shows the situation just before yesterday's expansion of Israeli ground operations in the Gaza Strip, with "closed military zones" set up inside Israel after the defeat of the Hamas-led invasion. We've also included a detailed timeline of events since the Hamas invasion ended about two weeks ago.

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Though its gains have now been reversed, Palestinian group Hamas briefly doubled its area of military dominance amid last weekend's unprecedented invasion into Israel's core territory. Here's a map of the situation at the height of its control on October 7th, and a timeline of the first several days of the new war.

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Looking for some background on who's who and what's the deal with all the different territories and zones in Israel/Palestine?

We've revised our popular Israel/Palestine control map and explainer article to be even clearer than before, and to describe the situation just before the current war started between Hamas and Israel.

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Latest subscriber update to our overview map of control in Ukraine, plus close-up map of the Donbas (Donetsk-Luhansk) region. The latest report covers up to the end of June, after the first phase of Ukraine's counteroffensive and the Wagner Group rebellion.