As the Assad regime said it is preparing for Idlib battle after retrieving Aleppo, many of Fatah al-Sham front leaders is being targeted and killed, giving a sign that this may be te first step [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said during a visit to the US that Iran has security and safety while Saudi Arabia is suffering from the terrorism it created. The Iranian minister made the remarks [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic is not interested in “any provocation” with the United States, and that Saudi Arabia is making desperate moves not to lose US support. The Iranian [ More … ]
The leader of a rebel group in Syria, that has recently split from al-Qaeda, has condemned the US and Russian-brokered ceasefire, saying it places Washington and the UN on the side of Bashar Assad and [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned the US commitment to the ceasefire agreement in Syria, saying he hoped US would work to achieve their commen goal and break its ties with the “terrorists” in Syria. Under [ More … ]
One need not espouse the hardline ideology of Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham to agree with its view that the new “cessation of hostilities”, brokered by Russia and the United States, “will only serve to [ More … ]
The Syria ceasefire deal unveiled by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on September 10, is a diplomatic coup for Russia. Moscow has reconfirmed its status as a powerbroker [ More … ]
Is the Russia-US agreement on Syria the beginning of the end of the conflict? Unlikely. The agreement merely reflects a shared commitment to a military strategy, with its major strategic goals being to delink and [ More … ]
The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal on Saturday to put Syria’s peace process back on track while putting more pressure on the Syrian rebels who are surrounded by counter-attacks by Assad regime. [ More … ]
The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal on Saturday to put Syria’s peace process back on track, including a nationwide ceasefire effective from sundown on Monday. The deal, agreed upon by US Secretary [ More … ]
A senior military commander and founding member of the Syrian rebel group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front, has been killed by a US air strike that hit a meeting of the group’s leaders, [ More … ]
On July 28, al-Nusra Front announced it was severing all ties with its parent organization, al-Qaeda, and changing its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Conquest of Syria Front). Al-Qaeda gave its blessing to the move, reflecting [ More … ]
The leader of al-Nusra Front, one of the most powerful rebel groups in Syria, has announced that the group is breaking its link with al-Qaida and changing its name, in an apparent attempt to be [ More … ]
He is mourned and remembered far beyond Syria and the modest patch of earth where he now rests. The death of Syrian citizen journalist Khaled al-Essa has raised further questions about the risks facing journalists [ More … ]
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has met Bashar al-Assad, the current Syrian president and the source cause of the Syrian crisis, in Damascus to discuss “military cooperation” in Syria’s conflict, a bone of contention between Moscow and Washington. [ More … ]
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