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 ...

Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control. The Syrian Observatory ...

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.

As rebels in Syria make new advances against government ... that the Middle East remains divided on the civil war, with local geography playing a significant role in how states reacted.