Mixed Turkish and Syrian rebel control
Kurdish
control
Mosul
Raqqa
Barisha
Erbil
Rebel control
US aircraft took off for the 70 minute flight to Barisha from Erbil. They returned shortly after 3.30am
Homs
Syria
Damascus
150 km
Regime
control
150 miles
Mixed Turkish
and Syrian rebel
control
Turkey
Akçakale
Kobani
Kurdish
control
Aleppo
Mosul
Raqqa
Barisha
Erbil
Idlib
US aircraft, mostly twin-rotor CH-47 helicopters, took off for the 70 minute flight to Barisha from Erbil. They returned shortly after 3.30am
Deir ez-Zor
Rebel control
Regime control
Euphrates
River
Homs
Syria
Iraq
Damascus
Baghdad
Jordan
100 km
100 miles