May 2018

Between displacement, survival and return, the people of Afrin area are living in miserable conditions, some of which vary and others intersect, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of tragedy for hundreds…

The clash of the capital Damascus, its surroundings and Ghouta have ended, after a military operation by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them with Russian support, by which they have ended the existence of the rebel and Islamic…

President Donald Trump may have a chance to pull the US out of Syria now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on Iran to move out its forces as well. Trump has long wanted to pull the US out of Syria, but likely…

The U.S. leaving the Iran nuclear deal was like a continental earthquake. Iran and Israel are inching towards an all-out war. But until the U.S. gets serious about the Russian threat, we will cede much of the Middle East…

In the wake of a 2011 uprising backed by the West, Turkey and Gulf Arab states, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appealed to Russia and Iran to support his embattled armed forces against rebels and jihadi groups, which have mostly been…

The last few weeks have not been kind to Tehran. First, US President Donald Trump carried out his campaign promise to take his country out of the international agreement to restrain Iran’s nuclear program, demanding that a new deal be…

Days after Russian special envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev confirmed that it is Moscow’s intention to see the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Syria, including those legally present like Iranian troops and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, US…

President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal didn’t draw much international applause, but three U.S. allies in the Middle East — Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — warmly welcomed the move. Israel had…

Putin’s diplomatic surge on Syria Maxim Suchkov writes May 10 that “one shouldn’t be surprised to see a high-level visitor or two from Syria or Iran to Russia rather soon,” after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an intense movement of military vehicles of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, in the northern sector of Daraa countryside, intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian…