SUBSCRIBERS CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL ARTICLE AND MAP: Old Portal (members.polgeonow.com) | New Portal (controlmaps.polgeonow.com) (To see more maps in this series, view all Israel articles or Palestine articles on PolGeoNow.) Map by Evan Centanni, timeline by Djordje Djukic with Evan Centanni Subscribe Now! Subscribe for full access to all conflict map reports! In the past three months, Israel's counter-invasion of the Gaza Strip has slowly ground on, with the shift focusing from Gaza City in the north to Khan Yunis in the south, and possibly to Rafah next. However, much of ..read more

(To see other maps in this series, view all Ukraine articles on PolGeoNow.) Map by Evan Centanni and Djordje Djukic. Contact us for permission to use this map. Timeline by Djordje Djukic Map showing what parts of the claimed territory of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics - now claimed as part of Russia - are controlled by Russian forces and allies, compared to the Ukrainian government. Click to enlarge. Map by Evan Centanni and Djordje Djukic. Contact us for permission to use this map. Ukraine retakes towns amid slow-going counteroffensive (The ma ..read more

There are later versions of this map available. To see them, view all Sudan articles on PolGeoNow. PolGeoNow proudly presents the first edition of our new Sudan war map series, meticulously researched over many months. We believe these to be the most accurate Sudan control maps available anywhere. This edition of the map depicts control in early October 2023, based on research conducted through January of 2024. A map of control in December 2023 has been released to our paid subscribers, and we intend to publish another free edition soon showing the current situation in 2024 ..read more

SUBSCRIBERS CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL ARTICLE AND MAP: Old Portal (members.polgeonow.com) | New Portal (controlmaps.polgeonow.com) (To see other maps in this series, view all Sudan articles on PolGeoNow.) Map and article by Evan Centanni and Djordje Djukic Subscribe Now! Subscribe for full access to all conflict map reports! From October to December of 2023, the defiant Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group accomplished a massive consolidation of control in western Sudan's Darfur region. By early December, the country’s official military had lost its footholds in four ..read more

This map shows the approximate situation on November 8, a week after Israel and Hamas resumed fighting in the Gaza Strip after a seven-day "humanitarian pause". To see more maps in this series, view all Israel articles or Palestine articles on PolGeoNow. Click to enlarge. Map by Evan Centanni, incorporating base map by Koen Adams of onestopmap.com and data from B'Tselem's interactive mapping project. (Contact us for permission to use this map.) Timeline by Djordje Djukic, with additional reporting by Evan Centanni Gaza Strip Divided Just as we were publishing the previous edition ..read more

This map shows the approximate situation early on October 27, 2023, before Israel's announced expansion of military activity within the Gaza Strip. At the time of publication, it's still unclear whether the expected Israeli ground invasion has begun, and little is known of the current situation within the Strip. Click to enlarge. Map by Evan Centanni, incorporating base map by Koen Adams of onestopmap.com and data from B'Tselem's interactive mapping project. (Contact us for permission to use this map.) Timeline by Djordje Djukic, with additional reporting by Evan Centanni 2023 Isr ..read more

This map shows the approximate situation on the afternoon of October 7, 2023, when control by Hamas and its allies reached farthest into Israel. Now, several days later, Israeli forces are thought to have reversed almost all those gains, returning the lines of control to roughly their same positions as just before the invasion. Click to enlarge. Map by Evan Centanni, incorporating base map by Koen Adams of onestopmap.com and data from B'Tselem's interactive mapping project. (Contact us for permission to use this map.) Timeline by Djordje Djukic 2023 Israel-Hamas War: How much of ..read more

Map by Evan Centanni, from blank map by Eric Gaba. License: CC BY-SA AU Suspensions at All-time High There are now a record of six member countries banned from participation in the African Union (AU), after Niger and Gabon were both suspended in August 2023. AU suspensions are almost always a response to a government overthrow in a member country, implying that coups in Africa are now at their highest point in the organization's 21-year history. The number is also up drastically from our previous African Union map update in June 2021, when we reported that only two countries were curr ..read more

SUBSCRIBERS CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL ARTICLE AND MAP: Old Portal (members.polgeonow.com) | New Portal (controlmaps.polgeonow.com) (To see other maps in this series, view all Ukraine articles on PolGeoNow.) Research by Djordje Djukic. Map by Evan Centanni and Djordje Djukic Subscribe Now! Subscribe for full access to all conflict map reports! Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian control has made modest progress, even as its forces lose a comparable amount of ground in bits and pieces along the rest of the front. In particular, Russia has pushed back into parts of Khark ..read more

SUBSCRIBERS CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL ARTICLE AND MAP: Old Portal (members.polgeonow.com) | New Portal (controlmaps.polgeonow.com) (To see other maps in this series, view all Syria updates.) Research by Djordje Djukic. Map by onestopmap.com, Evan Centanni, and Djordje Djukic Subscribe Now! Subscribe for full access to all conflict map reports! For years there have been no lasting changes to the lines of control in Syria's nearly-frozen civil war, but sporadic fighting has continued between rival rebel groups, between Turkish-led forces and elements of the Kurdish-led Syrian D ..read more