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Beirut, Lebanon – A Lebanese judge has filed corruption charges against eight former high-ranking security officers, including an ex-army chief and the former top brass of army intelligence, two judicial sources familiar with the matter…

The Trump administration is worried that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime is working to undermine neighboring Lebanon by driving up exchange rates for its weakened currency and ratcheting up influence on the fragile government through…

A file picture shows fighters assembled at at a military compound in Azerbaijan’s Beylagan district on Sof Nagorny Karabakh, last September. AFP LONDON--More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian mercenaries have returned…

Syrian freelance photographer Ameer al-Halbi poses with his camera at his home in Paris on November 29, 2020 (AFP) Pain breaks through the smile that Ameer al-Halbi tries to maintain while speaking with Middle East…

On September 28, the Syrian government proposed the 2021 budget, planned at 8.5 trillion Syrian pounds ($2.7 billion). The breakdown of the budget is still being debated in parliament. Due to the sharp depreciation of the Syrian pound and…

Iran’s foreign ministry has apparently denied reports that a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and three of his escorts were killed in a drone strike on their car near Iraq’s border with Syria. “It seems to be fake…

Iran is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into developing Shi’ite shrines in Iraq. In doing so it is binding its neighbour closer. KERBALA, Iraq – In September, a senior Iranian commander made an unannounced visit…

When I picture Syria, the first thing I see in my mind’s eye are the statues of the late Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, in military attire – there is one in almost every square. But it is not just statues in the urban spaces, this…

The early morning strikes hit positions of Iran-backed militias outside the town of Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor province Mostly Pakistani fighters were killed in the strikes, the Observatory said BEIRUT: Air strikes…

Eight pro-Iranian fighters were killed by the Israeli bombing that targeted military sites in Syria at night, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, Israel launched strikes…