Scores killed as Syrian forces seek to crush Alawite insurgency
DAMASCUS – Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the…
Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, and specifically on the summit of Mount Hermon, “until another…
UN chief urges Israel to end strikes, respect Syria’s territorial integrity
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly denounced “recent and extensive violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” and urged Israel to end attacks. “The secretary-general is particularly concerned over the…
Presence of Israeli forces in Syrian territory ‘temporary’, says Israeli FM
Agency Report Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Monday that his country’s military takeover of the buffer zone along its border with Syria was a “limited and temporary step”. “The…
Syria’s Assad is in Moscow after deal on military bases: Russian state media
Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies on Sunday, and a…
Iran’s embassy in Syria looted after rebels take over Damascus
Syria’s fate is the sole responsibility of the Syrian people and should be pursued without foreign imposition or intervention, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, after Tehran’s ally Bashar al-Assad…
Relief and uncertainty in Syria and region
BBC DAMASCUS – The fall of Bashar al-Assad was unthinkable just a week ago, when rebels started their astonishing campaign from their base in Idlib, in Syria’s north-west. Assad came…
Donald Trump asks U.S. to ‘stay out’ of Syria war, says Russia ‘can’t intervene’ having lost 600,000 soldiers in Ukraine
Olayomi Koiki President-elect Donald Trump has called for the United States to refrain from intervening in Syria as opposition fighters make significant progress towards the Syrian capital Damascus. Trump stated…
Russian bases in Syria threatened by insurgent advance, say Moscow’s war bloggers
Two strategically-important Russian military facilities in Syria and Moscow’s very presence in the Middle East are under serious threat from rapidly advancing insurgents, Russian war bloggers have warned. With Russian…
UN chief Guterres urges end to bloodshed in Syria
UNITED NATIONS – There is an urgent need for immediate humanitarian access to all civilians in need in Syria and a return to a U.N.-facilitated political process to end the…