15 minutes agoThis is the Syrian civil war map: Who controls it?
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Since March 2011, fighting had begun, it has been estimated that 465,000 Syrians have been killed, as well as more than 1 million injured, and some 12 million people were forced to abandon their homes. East Guta is an area east of Damascus that has been at the center of an offensive [...]
The eastern Guta is an area east of Damascus that has been at the centre of a tough offensive by President Bashar al Assad's forces, resulting in more than 340 deaths in the period of just two weeks, reports “Al Jazeera”, the Periscope broadcast.
About 400,000 people live in the enclaves controlled by rebels, who have been surrounded by government forces for almost five years, resulting in scarce supplies to the population.
Somewhere else, in northern Syria, pro-Assad fighters have been sent to the Kurdish enclave of Africa to face an offensive by Turkish troops and Allied Syrian rebels.
Africa lies only south of the Turkish border. Turkey is trying to bring down the Kurdish military of the YPG, which controls the area and has called on the Syrian military for assistance./Periscopi/
