July 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who rushed into Syria three years ago in an effort to save his ally President Bashar Assad, now says he can work with the U.S. to bring peace and reconciliation to the war-torn country. "As far as Syria…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources, that the 2 convoys of Daraa and Quneitra have departed towards their destinations in the Syrian north, after being held for several hours by the…

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed a number of the world's leading issues at their first bilateral summit in Helsinki, Finland. On the topic of the seven-year civil war in Syria, the two men appeared…

The United States-led coalition is "deeply in denial" about the number of civilians killed during an offensive it launched to remove the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group from Syria's Raqqa last year, …

When the stories of the war in Syria are told will they be reduced to simple tales of good and evil? What will they include and what will they leave out? And will each be able to be summarised, like the old saying suggests, as A…

Saudi and Israeli fears over Iran have benefited Assad - but having survived the war, can he survive the peace? The surrender of rebel forces in south-west Syria, following the fall of eastern Ghouta and other…

Al-Quneitra Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored smoke rising on the border with the occupied Syrian Golan, the sources confirmed that the smoke was caused by burning…

That question changed from an “if” to a “when” this week, and became one of the more awkward and pressing ones on the Trudeau government’s foreign-affairs agenda. The catastrophic Trump-Putin news conference left a lot of things uncertain,…

There’s no doubt about the affection in which Serbia’s Zastava weapons factory is held in the Middle East. Along the wall of Milojko Brzakovic’s managerial boardroom there are tokens of gratitude from the Arab world: plaques from Libya,…

The Israeli military says it has rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization from the volatile border area on the Golan Heights and evacuated them to a third country. The announcement marked the first such Israeli…