Syria’s parliament is shaping up to be a lot less “unified” than initially advertised, with the ruling government announcing they’re going to postpone elections for the People’s Assembly in three governorates where groups likely to oppose the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham...
Though there have been reports of indirect talks for months now, Tuesday marked the first time it was publicly confirmed that Israel and Syria’s Islamist government held direct talks, with a US-brokered meeting held in Paris. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani...
While the US has been redeploying much of its force inside Syria to the far south, they’ve reportedly carried out a high profile raid against ISIS in Atimeh in the Idlib Governorate. Though the special forces raid was in the northwest of Syria, some reports suggest...
The Islamist Syrian government is trying to give the impression they support peaceful unity in Syria, with President Ahmed al-Sharaa saying he believed Syria should be unified by some sort of understanding instead of by military force, because the Syrian people are...
As Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) tries to grow its national military after the takeover of the country in December, it was inevitable that Turkey, a heavy backer of the HTS during its offensives last year, would end up playing a big role. Syria and Turkey have...
Syria’s Foreign Minister was in Ankara today meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, and Fidan took the opportunity, as Turkish officials so often do, to rail about the Kurds threatening regional stability. This time, the warnings were directed at the...
Talks were held Tuesday in Amman, Jordan related to the ongoing situation in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate. No Druze were permitted to attend to the talks, which were between the Jordanian FM, the Syrian FM, and US envoy Tom Barrack. The sides discussed the tentative...
The number of people killed in the massacres in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate is still yet from being fully documented, as tensions continue to flare and the whole governorate is effectively on lockdown from the government. Talks aimed at addressing concerns about that...
Over the weekend, the Kurdish SDF held a unity conference in Paris meant to discuss, among other things, how integration with the Islamist Syrian government will actually work. The unity conference was condemned by the government, which refused to take part, claiming...
Despite the ongoing integration deal between the Kurdish SDF and the Islamist HTS-dominated government, government forces attacked SDF positions in the Aleppo Governorate today, sparking a number of substantial battles. Government-linked forces attacked SDF positions...
