Syrian civil war map: Who controls what?

Since March 2011 fighting has killed an estimated 465,000 Syrians, wounded one million more, and forced about 12 million people - or half the country's pre-war population - from their homes.
Eastern Ghouta, an area east of the capital Damascus, has been the focus of a fierce offensive by President Bashar al-Assad's forces in recent weeks, resulting in more than 1,000 deaths, including 215 children, and 145 women, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Government forces captured the town of Mesraba, 10km east of Damascus, and began advancing into its surrounding areas.
About 400,000 people live in the rebel-held enclave, which has been besieged by government forces for almost five years, resulting in few supplies reaching the desperate population.
Elsewhere, in northern Syria, Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels were deployed to the Kurdish enclave of Afrin to confront a US-backed Kurdish militia.
Afrin lies south of the Turkish border and Ankara is trying to oust the Kurdish YPG group, which controls the area and has called on the Syrian military for help against the Turks and their allies. 

Syrian government

• Main cities under government control are: Aleppo, Latakia, Tartus, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Palmyra, Abu Kamal. 

ISIL control

• After the battle for Raqqa, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) remains in control of the area near Abu Kamal, surrounded by government forces westward and Kurdish forces in the east. 

Kurdish control

• Other groups fighting in Syria include Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Iran-backed Hezbollah, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) dominated by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
  
• They control: Afrin, Raqqa, Qamishli, Hasakah.
  

Other groups

• The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is a loose conglomeration of armed brigades formed in 2011 by defectors from the Syrian army and civilians aiming to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
  
• Since the battle of Aleppo, the FSA has remained in control of limited areas in northwestern Syria.
  
• Main cities: Idlib, and the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus.
  

Eastern Ghouta 

• Eastern Ghouta has been under siege since 2013. As the last rebel stronghold near the capital, it has become the target of relentless bombing by the Syrian government.
  
• Jaish al-Islam, Faylaq al-Rahman, and Ahrar al-Sham are the largest armed groups in control of the suburb.
  
• Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) also has a minor presence, which is unwelcomed by the other armed groups.
  
• As of February 28, the most intense bombing has been in the towns of Douma, Mesraba, and Harasta near the front lines.
  
• As of March 10, Mesraba has been taken under government control.
• As of March 13, the Syrian army's campaign of air and artillery attacks has killed more than 1,100 civilians in nearly a month, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

• Syrian forces have captured more than half the enclave, splintering it as they seek to crush the last major rebel bastion near the capital.