The Armenian government has provided a financial assistance worth a total of 100 thousand USD to needy families residing in Syria, Spokeswoman at the foreign ministry Anna Naghdalyann told reporters …
How Russia outplayed the US with Turkey in Syria
Russia was able to meet with the SDC openly and also meet with Turkish officials, even though Turkey’s leaders consider the SDC linked to “terrorists.” At the same time US diplomats have generally …
Turkey detains top Islamic State commander in raid
IS officially announced its presence in Turkey in 2019 and has conducted numerous attacks in the country. ” [The suspect] had been constantly receiving orders from both Iraq and Syria to carry out an …
Five dead in Syria following airstrikes – report
Israel has repeatedly attacked Iranian targets in Syria and those of allied militias, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Earlier in August, the IDF carried out airstrikes against targets belonging to the …
U.S.-Backed Syria Fighters Consider Their Own Cause as Russia and Turkey Deal in Idlib
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have been sidelined by all sides dealing over their war-torn country’s future, now the mostly Kurdish group hopes the Damascus government will grant them a leading …
Missing persons in Syria near 100,000: Watchdog
At least 99,479 people in Syria went missing from March 2011 to August 2020, a human rights watchdog said Sunday. In a report released on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced …
Road clash with Russians renews debate over U.S. mission in Syria
U.S. troops’ confrontation with Russian forces in Syria last week has raised fresh questions about the role of U.S. forces in Syria, exactly what the administration hopes to achieve, and what metrics …
Syria’s Assad issues decree on forming new government
Assad has issued a decree on forming the new government, days after confirming Hussein Arnous as the Arab country’s prime minister. In a decree carried by Syria’s official news agency SANA, the Syrian …
‘Assad has ruined everything’: Inside the buffer zone keeping a tenuous hold on stability in northern Syria
There are 3,000 ISIS fighters in the desert of east Syria being supported by Assad’s regime and the separatist PKK (Kurds). “They will only go if we, the opposition, are supported and the regime is …
The civil war is threatening an ancient way of life in Syria
For centuries, Bedouin tribes moved around the vast semi-arid steppe land in Syria, searching for water and pasture for their herds of camels, sheep, and goats. This ecologically sustainable mobility …