Al-Monitor noted that these groups were “accused of forcibly displacing and oppressing the local Kurdish population in northern Syria’s Afrin region.” The groups listed include the Suleiman Shah …
Russia launches missile attack on terrorists bases in Syria
Media sources reported that Russian warplanes launched large-scale attacks on the headquarters and weapon depots of the Al-Nusra terrorist group on the outskirts of Idlib in Northwestern Syria.
Illegal logging turns Syria’s forests into ‘barren land’
On a riverbank in war-ravaged Syria’s north, felling has reduced what was once a lush forest to dispersed trees and decimated trunks poking out from dry, crumbly soil.Twelve years of conflict that led …
Israeli jailed in Turkey for smuggling khat returns home after 4.5-year imprisonment
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 …