Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler says that the Turkish military has no intention of withdrawing from either Iraq or Syria irrespective of what agreements have been reached by other factions within those countries. There had been speculation, particularly with...
The Syrian Internal Security Directorate has announced that one of their officers has been arrested for involvement in an attack on Saturday in which four Druze civilians were killed and one other was wounded. The shooting happened in the village of al-Matana, in...
For the past several days, Israel has been reported to be spraying “unidentified chemicals” on land in southern Lebanon, as well as southwestern Syria’s Quneitra Governorate. The chemicals were sprayed largely over farmland in both areas. Samples taken in the Lebanese...
US Central Command said on Wednesday that its forces conducted five strikes against ISIS in Syria from January 27 to February 2, while the US is also backing the Syrian government, which is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda with a similar ideology...
The US-mediated effort to get a deal between Israel and Syria still seems to be a work in progress, and the IDF is back deploying forces into Syria’s southwestern Quneitra Governorate, and attacking farmland around the area. Ground troops entered Quneitra and went to...
Iraq's judiciary announced on Monday that it has begun investigating more than 1,300 ISIS detainees who the US recently transferred from Syria after Syrian government forces captured territory held by the Kurdish-led SDF, where the ISIS fighters were held....
The Kurdish majority city of Kobane remains under the control of the SDF, and despite yet another deal between Kurdish officials and the Syrian government which was meant to resolve the conflict, the city remains under siege. As the siege of the city approaches two...
If you put aside the continued fighting in several parts of northern and eastern Syria, and the mounting humanitarian crisis among civilians displaced by the fighting, the ceasefire between the Syrian government and the Kurdish SDF is holding. The tribal-backed...
Fighting between the Syrian military and the Kurdish SDF continues with the government cracking down on perceived SDF loyalists and trying to consolidate gains from the recent offensives against them. Much has been said about the fighting, but less so about the people...
Fresh off a new 15-day extension of the ceasefire between the two sides, the Syrian Army and the Kurdish SDF are continuing to fight in several areas across the country, and as has been the case for weeks the only thing the two sides can agree on is that the other...
