January has painful connotations in Tehran. Iran cannot forget what happened on the third of that month in 2020. A man far away crossed what it considered a red line. Qasem Soleimani was killed near ...

The past week was a turning point for Lebanon by all measures. Observers agree that this was no ordinary presidential election, and not only because it ended a longstanding presidential vacuum that ...

In the absence of decisive action from international actors, Syria is poised to descend further into crisis, as Afghanistan ...

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By leveraging Turkey’s military power, economic influence and ideological appeal, Erdogan seeks to position Ankara as the ...

How these two actors—HTS and the SDF—navigate their divergent interests and goals will shape Syria’s future political map ... from their stronghold in Idlib in northwest Syria, the ...

Syria has for years been controlled by a patchwork of rebel groups including HTS in Idlib and Kurdish-led groups ... he had been given asylum in Russia. Map: Where is Syria and how are its ...

Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the nation has become a battleground for competing hegemons. The United ...

Having ruled Turkey for more than 20 years, Erdogan’s mission has been to place Turkey back at the center of the world map, reviving the country’s Ottoman Empire past. He also wants to place ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

But the sort of main challenge is that Idlib is a tiny province by comparison ... the targets and it’s just very difficult to sort of map out exactly what they’ve been hitting.

Throughout the volatile seven-year Syrian war, conflicting parties routinely produce maps with differing claims of territorial control. Afrin, abutting Hatay to the west and rebel-held Idlib to ...