May 2020

The war-battered region has sporadic electricity and relies on satellite internet for communication In this April 13, 2020 photo, Tariq al-Obeid, displaced from the eastern countryside of Idlib, Syria, shows a lesson for his…

A senior adviser to Iran’s parliament speaker on Sunday denied reports about reaching an agreement with Russia on the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria, Anadolu reports. In a tweet, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian…

A man smokes a hookah as he watches Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speak on TV, in a coffee shop, in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon. (Reuters) Assaf Orion, a retired Israel Defense Forces brigadier general, gave a talk last…

Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, renewing Iran’s demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East. Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict with the…

And what is Russia's role in the clash between the Assad and Makhlouf clans? In April, a series of articles were published by a Russian media outlet criticising Syrian…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s telecommunications authority on Sunday said a deadline for a cellular company owned by the cousin of President Bashar Assad to pay back its debts to the state has ended, adding that legal measures will be…

Low oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic have weakened Russian President Vladimir Putin, but not enough to threaten his power or constrain his foreign policy ambitions — for now. The oil price crisis and the pandemic hit Putin at a…

An Interview With Mr Adam sparks revulsion by using picture of Rehab al-Alawi A new Ramadan television series in Syria has been met with revulsion by the opposition and diaspora community…

Israel's army on Sunday shot and wounded someone who illegally entered the country across the closely guarded separation line with Lebanon, the military said. "A short while ago... troops spotted a suspect who crossed the Blue Line…

Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said on Sunday that authorities set a deadline for him to resign from top mobile operator Syriatel or…