The Syrian Civil War - Visualized

The Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone (primary author - Kevin Leetaru) is

... a new CAMEO-coded data set containing more than 200-million geolocated events with global coverage for 1979 to the present. [...] The data are based on a variety of international news sources coded using the TABARI system for events and additional software for location and tone; the data will be updated daily.

The New Scientist has mapped the data pertaining to the civil-war in Syria.  Check it out...