UPDATES: Israel Strikes Assad Regime Targets in Western Syria
Israel strikes Assad regime targets in western Syria on Wednesday, knocking out air defense before reportedly attacking the Shayrat airbase in Homs Province.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Sep 14, 2023 | Syria | 0
Israel strikes Assad regime targets in western Syria on Wednesday, knocking out air defense before reportedly attacking the Shayrat airbase in Homs Province.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Sep 10, 2023 | Syria | 3
Almost 12 1/2 years after the Syrian uprising of March 2011 for rights, reforms, and justice, protests are resurging across the south of the country.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Sep 6, 2023 | Syria | 0
12 1/2 years after start of Syria’s uprising v. Assad regime, another front of conflict in the fractured country: Kurdish groups v. Arab tribes in northeast
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 27, 2023 | Syria | 0
At least 11 Russian-trained Assad regime troops have reportedly been killed and 20 wounded by a tunnel bomb in southern Idlib Province in northwest Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 18, 2023 | Iran, Russia, Syria, What's New | 15
In a Syria where no one has “won”, headline is of possible Russia-Iran-US showdown. But that diverts from local story where Kurds could be biggest losers.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 18, 2023 | Syria, Turkey | 1
The US sanctions two Turkish-backed Syrian militias, saying that they are forcibly displacing and oppressing the local Kurdish population in northwest Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 11, 2023 | Syria | 0
Islamic State reportedly kills 23 Assad regime troops and injured 10 in its latest attack on a military bus in Deir ez-Zor Province in eastern Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 10, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 0
Russia uses Security Council veto to block renewal of humanitarian aid through remaining cross-border point into NW Syria, affecting four million people.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 5, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 0
Russia’s warplanes kill husband, wife, and son and injure 6 other civilians in Idlib Province in northwest Syria. Farms, buildings, and homes damaged.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jul 25, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 4
Breaking years-long “deconfliction” arrangement in Syria, Russia warplanes harass US drones and surveillance aircraft flying over the north of the country.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jul 24, 2023 | Iran, Syria, What's New | 12
Iran regime and Bashar al-Assad try to portray that they are stable and in control amid Assad quest for “normalization”. The projection of power is a facade.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jul 5, 2023 | Syria | 1
Report by war crimes investigators documents how Syria’s Assad regime “planned, organised, instigated and deployed” paramilitary units to crush an uprising.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jul 1, 2023 | Syria | 0
UN General Assembly approved resolution for investigation into fate of 130,000+ Syrians who have “disappeared” since March 2011 rising against Assad regime.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jun 26, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 0
White Helmets rescuers treat a victim of Russian airstrikes on Idlib Province in northwest Syria,...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jun 21, 2023 | Syria | 0
For 1st time since displaced Syrians set up Rubkan camp in barren southeast of the country in autumn 2015, the US military has delivered humanitarian aid.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jun 21, 2023 | Syria | 0
Turkish and Iranian delegations at talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, June 20, 2023 The Assad regime has...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 31, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 0
Colonel Oleg Pechevisty of Russia’s GRU military intelligence killed in northwest Syria, prompting Moscow’s retaliatory airstrikes on opposition territory
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 31, 2023 | Syria | 0
US, UK, and EU sanction Assad regime figures over their involvement in Syria’s illegal drug trade, including $57 billion “financial lifeline” of Captagon.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 29, 2023 | Syria | 0
Israel warplanes carried out missile strikes on Assad regime targets in and near Damascus late Sunday, in 17th set of attacks this year and 1st since May 2.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 26, 2023 | Syria | 0
Syria’s Assad regime could prevent up to 13 million people — about 60% of the country’s pre-conflict population — from returning to their homes.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 19, 2023 | Syria | 0
Arab League readmits Assad regime, 12 years after suspending Syria’s membership over the deadly repression of mass protests, in step for “normalization”.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 11, 2023 | Syria | 0
Saudi Arabia and the Assad regime are in discussions about renewing diplomatic links, beginning with the restoration of consular services.
Read MoreForeign ministers of Turkey, Russia, and Iran meet Assad regime counterpart, in highest-level talks among the quartet since Syria’s uprising of March 2011.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 3, 2023 | Iran, Syria | 2
In the first visit by an Iranian President to Syria since the start of the 2011 uprising, Ebrahim Raisi has met Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 3, 2023 | Syria, Turkey | 0
President ErdoÄŸan, in midst of re-election campaign, says Turkey’s intelligence services killed Islamic State leader Abu Hussein al-Qurashi in north Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 23, 2023 | Syria | 0
US authorities pursue war crimes investigation of senior Assad regime officials over torture and killing of aid worker Layla Shweikani in detention in Syria.
Read MoreTop-secret US intelligence document says Ukraine military intelligence proposed covert attacks, with help from Kurdish-led SDF, on Russian forces in Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 25, 2023 | Iran, Syria | 7
US warplanes strike Iran-backed militia in NE Syria, after an Iranian-made drone kills contractor and wounds 5 troops and 1 contractor in attack on US base.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 19, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 0
PR value of Bashar al-Assad’s appearance with Vladimir Putin in Moscow crumbles over dispute about Turkey presence in Syria, as high-level meeting cancelled.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 1, 2023 | MENA, Syria, Turkey | 4
50,000+ people have been killed in Syria and Turkey by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the most powerful quakes in the region for more than a century.
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