Donald Trump has been defending his decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria, and end an air campaign against ISIS. After historic victories against ISIS, it’s time to bring our great young people home! pic.twitter.com/xoNjFzQFTp [ More … ]
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura set to review joint proposal with foreign ministers in Geneva. The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura is set to hold talks with foreign ministers from Iran, Russia [ More … ]
Turkish defense minister says country repeatedly conveyed discomfort to US on planned observation points in northern Syria Turkey has repeatedly conveyed its “discomfort” to the U.S. officials over their country’s planned observation points in northern [ More … ]
Istanbul summit addresses numerous issues, including Idlib demilitarised zone, constitutional reform and refugees. A four-way summit on Syria has ended with no major breakthrough, even as the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France agreed [ More … ]
As the conditional and temporary U.S. support for the YPG/PKK terror group in Syria has turned out to be permanent against Iran and Russia, Washington is moving into a strategic dead end in Syria. The [ More … ]
Israel’s Quneitra border crossing was closed four years ago at height of the conflict in neighbouring Syria Israel announced Thursday that it had made all necessary preparations to reopen its main border crossing with Syria [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Russian leader’s presidential residence on Monday in the coastal city of Sochi. Erdoğan said on Monday that a joint [ More … ]
The agenda has already changed, but I want to write about the Tehran Summit and the Idlib issue. To begin with, let’s recall what happened at the Tehran Summit, which was attended by the presidents [ More … ]
We have entered the eighth year of the crisis in Syria and nowadays are in a situation in which it is acknowledged that the whole matter leads to the borders of Idlib. Now everyone is [ More … ]
Russia’s campaign in Syria has allowed Russia to re-emerge as a leading actor in the Middle East thanks, to a large extent, to the use of hard power and coercive diplomacy. As Moscow looks to [ More … ]
By: Zekeriya Kurşun War is not something normal. In history, neither a soldier nor a victorious commander has found war to be normal. Whatever the reason, war is, after all, playing with fire. Whether it be [ More … ]
Speaking at the 71st annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, he Saudi crown prince, Muhammad Bin Naif, said the kingdom ranked as the third country worldwide in terms of [ More … ]
Assad regime’s jets have continued to pound Kurdish-controlled parts of the northeastern city of Hasakah for a second day, killing at least 22 residents and forcing thousands to flee. People’s Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia, [ More … ]
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