NATO Allies Hold Off on Weapons, Military Support for Syrian RebelsZachary Fryer-BiggsDefense News
The ministry said in a statement: "The Syrian people have suffered too much. Bashar Assad has bled dry country, emptied of a large part of its people who, if not forced into exile, have been massacred, tortured and bombarded with chemical weapons by the regime and its allies." German For...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and their allies have killed at least 85 civilians since Dec. 31 in stepped-up attacks against the besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. Conditions in the enclave, the last major rebel-he...
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The United States has also carried out military training in southeastern Syria, which was seen as a message to the Syrian government and its allies that the United States is still present in Syria and is going nowhere anytime soon. Also, establishing a strong foothold in the oil-rich areas ...
This quarter, the threat of a new Turkish military offensive led to increased conflict in northern Syria. In addition, intense clashes between Turkish-backed armed opposition groups in Aleppo Governorate provided the opportunity for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to enter Turkish-held Syria temporarily. Within...
In 2018, the GoS armed forces and its allies launched Operation Basalt, which ended with the GoS reconquering Dara’a Governorate and the rest of southern Syria. As part of the operation, the GoS and Russia allowed some opposition fighters to reconcile, deferring their military conscription in...
ignored the context of the April 4 case and the past history of Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front staging chemical weapons attacks with the goal of foisting blame on the Syrian government and tricking the U.S. military into an intervention on the side of Nusra and its Islamic-militant allies. ...
Last April, the United States accused the Syrian army of using nerve agent sarin in an attack on a rebel-held town of the northwestern province of Idlib. Later on, it struck a Syrian military base in central Syria in retaliation for the chemical attack, which was denied by the Syrian gove...
The Russian Defense Ministry said Syria had intercepted 71 out of 103 cruise missiles launched by the United States and its allies, according to the Russian Embassy in London. It said only seven missiles had reached two Syrian military airfields and that “no serious damage to infrastructure was...