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Six Syrian soldiers were killed and eight others wounded on Sunday by an Islamic State (IS) attack in the desert region in central Syria, a war monitor reported. The IS militants ambushed the bus that was carrying Syrian soldiers on the…

Gunmen killed at least 15 people in Syria, mostly government soldiers travelling on a bus, in the second such road ambush in recent days, a war monitor said Monday. The attack late Sunday resulted in the deaths of eight soldiers, four…

At least nine people, including seven Syrian government soldiers, were killed in an attack on a bus, a Britain-based war monitor said Sunday. The ambush also wounded 16 people travelling in the vehicle from the northern city of Raqqa…

The year 2020 was a bad year for the world, owing to Covid-19 pandemic, but for the Middle East, it was even worse. On 3 January 2020, America assassinated Qasem Soleimani, the second most powerful Iranian, in a drone strike near…

A satellite image of the Saydnaya prison complex, outside Damascus. The report surveyed more than 1,200 former prisoners and family members. Photograph: EPA Families of detainees in…

US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Levant Affairs and Special Envoy for Syria Joel Rayburn delivers a statment ahead of a meeting of the Syria constitution-writing committee on October 29, 2019 at the United Nations Offices in Geneva.…

Turkey has begun 2021 with a busy agenda in terms of foreign affairs. Its major foreign policy issues can be divided into three chapters. One chapter is its relations with the US. The files in this chapter include Turkey’s purchase of…

Russia and Turkey hold in their hands the fate of the strategically important northern Syrian town of Ain Issa, nominally controlled by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) but overseen by the Russians. Faced with a…

Protesters in Tehran burn a U.S. flag during a demonstration after the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Qassem Soleimani. | Vahid Salemi/AP Photo Michael Knights is a Senior Fellow at…

Chanting anti-American slogans, some demanded revenge for the deaths of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. As tensions with Iran ratchet up during the final days of Donald…