June 2020

Decision-makers in Washington design policies for the Eastern Arab World on a country-by-country basis and all too clearly do not take into consideration the consequences for neighbours and the wider region of destructive…

Few people know that Turkey has a military base in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, and that its largest embassy abroad also happens to be in the Somali capital. The only thing that combines Libya, where Turkey is already present,…

The latest round of economic sanctions against Syria have mobilized the Syrian-American community in the Lehigh Valley who worry that the economic toll will further devastate their families abroad. More than two…

More than 1,000 Syrians have voluntarily returned to their home country with financial support from Germany since 2017, the German Interior Ministry told DPA news agency. The ministry said the German Federal Office for…

Local authorities in northwest Syria are replacing the plummeting Syrian pound with the Turkish lira to shield their opposition-held region from economic collapse, an official said Monday. The Salvation Government -- an…

Turkish envoy to Libya Emrullah Isler tells MEE that the Tobruk parliament speaker is an elected politician and a viable partner in political talks Turkey sees head of Libya's Tobruk-based parliament Aguila Saleh Issa as a viable…

Russia is pressuring Maher Assad, the brother of Syrian president Bashar Assad, to withdraw his troops from various regions in the country and return them to their bases in Damascus, said different sources. Maher leads the Fourth…

When reports surface of Israeli air strikes on targets in Syria, that’s usually a sign that Iran has once again been caught trying to turn Syria into a new front against Israel. Therefore, reports from recent days suggest that the…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed on Saturday that Maher Al-Assad, the brother of Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad, has rejected direct orders from Russia to withdraw all checkpoints erected by the 4th…