The  Syria Tracker Crisis Map  is without doubt one of the most impressive crisis mapping projects yet. Launched just a few weeks after the protests began one year ago, the crisis map is spearheaded by a just handful of US-based Syrian activists have meticulously and...

Over 400 million tweets are posted every day. But accessing 100% of these tweets (say for disaster response purposes) requires access to Twitter’s “Firehose”. The latter, however, can be prohibitively expensive and also requires serious infrastructure to manage. This explains...

A Russian defence ministry source has told Reuters he knew of no qualified Syrians trained by Moscow to use the S- 300 s, putting the completion of the anti-aircraft system in Syria at "six to 12 months from now ".   He added that the Israelis "likely have...

The Syrian National Coalition issued today an “urgent appeal for relief efforts” for over 1,000 injured civilians in Qusair, the western city that has been the site of fierce fighting between government troops plus Hezbollah, and opposition forces. Reuters has been speaking to Malek...