While the sudden regime change in Syria affected numerous regional powers, few face as much disruption as Russia. During the Assad era, Russia maintained very important Mediterranean bases in Syria, including Tartus, Russia’s only Mediterranean naval base. With Assad...
Israel launched dozens of airstrikes in Syria overnight Saturday into Sunday despite the new de facto leader of the country, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, saying his group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was not interested in a conflict with Israel. According to Al Jazeera,...
On Sunday, the Israeli government approved a plan to surge the settler population of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which comes after Israeli troops captured more land inside Syria following the downfall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The plan will...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that the US has been in direct contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a US-designated terror organization that grew out of al-Qaeda in Syria and recently led the offensive that overthrew former Syrian President Bashar...
It has been a wild 72 hours for the Kurdish-dominated SDF forces in Syria’s northeast. After substantial fighting over the city of Manbij and a 4-day truce conditioned entirely on the SDF removing themselves and their families from the area, the relative stability in...
The US had to give the Kurdish-led SDF an ultimatum to withdraw from the northern Syrian city of Manbij and cede it to the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), Al-Monitor reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the US brokered a ceasefire deal between...
Ukrainian intelligence had provided Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an offshoot of al-Qaeda, with drone support weeks before the group launched the offensive in Syria that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. "Ukrainian...
The Israeli military said Tuesday that it launched 480 strikes in Syria over 48 hours following the overthrow of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which Israeli media said marked the heaviest Israeli bombing of Syria in history. The IDF said it struck "most of...
On Monday, the US State Department backed Israel's seizure of territory in Syria that came after the collapse of the government of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, framing it as a defensive action. Israel seized a buffer zone between the Israeli-occupied Golan...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be Israel's "forever" comments that came a day after Israel captured territory inside Syria. Israel first took the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and annexed the...
