Iran’s seizure of a British oil tanker in retaliation for the UK’s seizure of an Iranian supertanker brings back vivid memories of the Tanker War of the 1980s. Such escalation in international waterways strengthened fears by governments, major international oil...
A Vatican delegation led by a special envoy of the Pope, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, has recently paid a visit to Damascus, resulting in mixed reactions from both Christian and non-Christian Syrians alike. Cardinal Turkson, who heads the Vatican...
The historical and political role played by the Druze population in the Levant, a community shrouded in much secrecy and misinformation, despite centuries of persecution and oppression by much larger religious faiths, has greatly exceeded their sheer size and number...
The United Arab Emirates is to draw back its troops taking part in the Saudi-led coalition, waging a relentless military campaign in Yemen over the past four years. This came as a shocking development for many belligerent parties within the...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s insistence to go ahead with the controversial S-400 Russian missile deal has sent shockwaves throughout much of the Middle East, Gulf region, and all the way to Washington. Parts of the most sophisticated anti-aircraft and...
(Damascus) This year’s rain season in Syria was exceptionally good nation-wide. Farmers were particularly optimistic that a good harvest would alleviate some of their eight-year long hardships, caused by the devastating conflict that broke out in March 2011. That optimism...
A major development in events was confirmed late last night by the Russian Defence Ministry; a 72-hour truce in the “Hostilities Reduction zone, covering large sections of the Hama and Idlib rural areas. The ferocious battles fought in the area...
(Damascus) Full of ups and downs, warmth and cold shoulders, alliance and animosity, comrades in-arms and disenchantment; such has been the relationship between Syria and Hamas (an Arabic abbreviation for the Movement of Islamic Resistance) in Palestine. It all started...
As if US-led tightening sanctions on Iran, with their economic, political and security ramifications were not enough, the USA and the UK were quick to point finger at Tehran for recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman,...
Fierce battles are raging on between the Syrian Army, al Nusra and other terrorist organisations – some 23 extremist groups – in the countryside of Hama and Idlib for weeks now. The balance is quickly tilting in favour of the...
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