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

With the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the Syrian Civil Defense deployed to cities where the rescue organization ...

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 ...

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

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

As Syrians celebrate the end of the tyrannical regime of Bashar al-Assad, the war-weary Syrian state ... and goals will shape Syria’s future political map. In the days following the collapse ...

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 ...

In 2020, Türkiye and Russia mediated a ceasefire to stop the Syrian government’s attempt to reclaim Idlib, a stronghold ... Syria (as of December 8, 2024; map and legend courtesy of the Institute for ...

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 ...

After he decided in 2011 to suppress calls for democracy with violence, hundreds of thousands of young Syrian men lost their lives in the ensuing civil war. Millions more fled to neighbouring ...

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