An increase in airstrikes in Syria comes as Israeli officials say that Iran may be reducing is presence in the country.
April and May have seen an unprecedented wave of strikes targeting a wide variety of areas from near Aleppo to the Golan. This comes after Iran suffered setbacks in Iraq and as US-Iran tensions have grown in Iraq and the Gulf. It also comes as the Syrian regime faces new challenges with its own insiders and Russian and Iranian allies. Our map illustrates the extent of the strikes coded by month for 2020.