The United States has imposed sanctions on two Turkey-backed Syrian militias and the groups’ leaders accused of human rights abuses in Syria’s northwestern, opposition-held enclave.
U.S. sanctions Syrian militias and leaders for alleged human rights abuses
The U.S. Treasury Department Thursday sanctioned two Syrian militias and three of their leaders for alleged serious human rights abuses in the Kurdish Afrin region of the country.
Israel faces intensifying external threats and internal divisions
From atop small mountain peaks in the Israeli Golan Heights you can peer deep into both Lebanon and Syria. On the Israeli side of the border, everything is green. Why? Because the Israelis irrigate …
Swiss arrest warrant for uncle of Syria’s Assad
Switzerland has issued an arrest warrant for the uncle of Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad over war crimes allegedly committed in the 1980s.The warrant was ordered by a Swiss court last year but made …
Islamic State group still has thousands in Syria and Iraq and poses Afghan threat, UN experts say
U.N. experts say the Islamic State group still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across its former stronghold in Syria and Iraq and its fighters pose the most serious terrorist threat in …
Syria is on the verge of economic collapse. Assad is to blame
Currency devaluation and inflation have triggered a devastating cost of living crisis. Already struggling to make ends meet, many Syrians feel they have no choice but to leave, writes Joseph Daher.
Turkey dismisses Assad’s tirade, says withdrawal from Syria ‘unimaginable’ now
Turkey’s defense minister says withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syria would be “unimaginable” before his country’s national security concerns are addressed.
Explosions rock Syrian capital, with no immediate word on source or targets
State media and local residents say repeated blasts heard before dawn in Damascus; war monitor says sites involved were weapons warehouses of Iran-backed militias …
Can Yemen hold together?
Fragmented states in the Middle East are no rarity—think of Iraq, Libya, Palestine and Syria—but Yemen is the most disunited of all. Rent by civil war for the past eight years, it is a …
Assad blames Erdogan for violence in Syria and insists on a pullout of Turkish troops
Syrian President Bashar Assad has slammed Turkey and blamed Ankara for the uptick in violence in his war-torn country …