Since the beginning of the civil war,Turkey’smilitary has launched several military interventions across the border into Syria, mostly against Syrian Kurdish-led forces. Turkey now effectively controls a zone along Syria’s northern border.
Ahmed Al-Sharaa, head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and de facto leader of Syria, says the country is exhausted by the ongoing war and is no longer a threat to its neighbors or to the West.
SYRIAN Civil War, 2011-CONSTITUTIONAL lawPEACE negotiationsThe 2012 Syrian Constitution has been largely (dis)regarded as embodying a mere policy intent to placate contestation, leaving the resorts of monocratic power untouched. While this might be true, there were formal changes...
Over the last few days, the mainstream media has simultaneously turned their attention to the ongoing military operation in eastern Ghouta, a militant-controlled suburb of Damascus, which is seeing a new wave of clashes between Syrian government forces and Islamist factions. While the army aims to...
The "intense" battles were fought in the eastern countryside of the eastern province of Deir al-Zour near the village of al-Bulail, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The watchdog group said the battles were ongoing. The clashes on Wednesday came days after the IS ambushed governm...
The article looks at conditions in Syria as of March 2014, in the context of the ongoing war between the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and various armed anti-government groups. The author describes the extreme suffering of many Syrian civilians including towns under siege and ...
The Syrian government troops and the Russian air force will continue operations against tge IS and other terrorist groups until their complete destruction, he said. The ongoing Syrian civil war broke out in spring of 2011 between the government forces, along with its allies, and various forces op...
In August, the Syrian government was accused of killing more than 1,000 people with chemical weapons. [Pictured: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta signs a document ending the ban on women participating in combat missions] 2014: Slashes to military budget Marine Corps Sgt. Aaron Hostutler // ...
Nearly seven years into the Syrian civil war, the Arab country has turned into a proxy battleground for regional and international powers. The presence of extremist militant groups, including the IS, in western Syria, prompted the Iraqi government to send security forces and paramilitary Hashd Shaa...
Kurdish forces occupy the northeast of the country, having achieved hard-won autonomy during a decade of civil war. They fear that autonomy could now be under threat from the Syrian opposition insurgents. 7:30 a.m. 15:11:57, December 11, 2024 ...