A controversial buffer zone in northern Kurdish-held Syrian-Turkish borders is to be jointly managed by the US and Turkey. This was announced following three days of intensive negotiations between the two NATO member states a week ago. Regardless of the...
(Damascus) After a prolonged delay due to field and political complications associated with the step, Iraq and Syria have announced 1st September as the official inauguration day for the reopening of a major border crossing point that has been closed...
“We say this about the east of Euphrates; either we will clear the region of the terrorists together, [or] Turkey will enter there and clear by ourselves” – the strident words of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. Those with a...
After fleeing conflict in their homeland, nearly 3.6 million Syrian refugees have begun to wear out their welcome in Turkey, although not necessarily due to their own fault; after spending years in their host country, many simply moved on from...
Joint Russian and Syrian air raids are targeting the strategic al-Nusra Front’s stronghold of Khan Sheikhoon. Following a defiant statement yesterday by al-Nusra leader Abu Muhammad Al Jawlani refusing to oblige by the decisions and agreements reached at the 13th...
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres launched an investigation on Thursday into military strikes on hospitals and other civilian facilities in northwest Syria, amid growing fears that they were being deliberately targeted by the Syrian government and Russian forces. The probe...
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 US-led coalition has claimed that at least 1,300 civilians were unintentionally killed between August 2014 and the end of April 2019 during its fight against the Islamic State group (IS) in Iraq and Syria . But Amnesty International has...
(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...