Tall Bazi on the map of Ancient Near East (as possibly the site of Armi/Armanum). The time period is during the first kingdom of Ebla around 2340 BC. To the east, the kingdom of Nagar controlled most ...

Using scrollytelling maps and satellite images of damaged protected regions ... she told her family and friends she was starting a new life in Morocco. However, she ended up in Raqqa — a city ...

A charity that has helped raise more than £40m for research into childhood cancers has been named North East Charity of the ...

Apple Maps has been playing catch up to Google Maps since it launched in 2012, and it has now finally made its debut on the web. That means you can access Apple Maps in any browser, whether you ...

Marwa, 30, had a routine. Every week, she and her sister took turns collecting water from a public tank in Hasakah city’s al-Nashwa neighborhood and carrying it home. That only changed after she ...

PamPam, a new social-mapping platform, wants to make maps more interactive and fun. Founded by ex-Google and Facebook employees, PamPam offers custom maps and AI tools. PamPam is bootstrapped ...

CENTCOM linked al-Dandal to the escape of five ISIS foreign fighters -- two Russians, two Afghans and one Libyan -- from a detention facility in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on Aug. 29.

Last week, five ISIS detainees escaped from the Raqqa detention facility in Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces recaptured two of the escapees, but the other three remain at large, CENTCOM said. More ...

who was helping five ISIS fighters who had fled a detention center in Raqqa, Syria. Two of the escaped ISIS fighters were recaptured; the other three remain at large, the military said.

Once based in the Syrian city of Raqqa and the Iraqi city of Mosul, from which it sought to rule like a centralised government, the group took refuge in the hinterlands of the two fractured countries.