Aweke served over three years in prison, including a transfer to another facility after harassment by Syrian and Iranian inmates who discovered that he was Israeli. He was released to house arrest and …
Mysterious US Military Movements in Iraq… Syria a Possible Target
Photos of US military convoys moving in separate cities are circulating on the local media in Iraq amid reports that the Shiite factions are “aware of an imminent operation, and have been asked to …
The US must act against Assad’s Syrian narco-state
Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (C) and his Vice President Faruq Al-Shara (back L) and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (back R) head the Syrian delegation to the Arab Summit in …
Protests in southern Syria as economy worsens
Syria’s economy is in tatters, and the removal of subsidies has led to relatively rare protests in government territory.
US imposes sanctions on 2 Turkey-backed Syrian militias and the groups’ leaders
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.