July 2020

Three Russian and several Turkish soldiers were wounded Tuesday in Syria's restive Idlib province when a joint military patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device, Russia's defence ministry said. Russia and Turkey launched…

Several Turkish, Russian soldiers were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb attack hit a joint patrol in northern Syria's M4 highway. Russia's Defence Ministry said a roadside bomb detonated and hit a joint…

The eastern-based Libyan parliament, which supports the Libyan National Army (LNA), has given go-ahead to the Egyptian armed forces to intervene in the Libyan conflict. In early June, Egypt put forward the Cairo peace initiative, outlining…

Rouaa is nine years old, the same age as the devastating war that has ravaged her country, Syria, killing hundreds of thousands of people and creating the world’s largest refugee crisis. Her family fled a chemical attack near their…

The recent record-breaking shipment of amphetamines seized by Italian authorities may not have been manufactured by terrorist group ISIS, as was first believed, but by the Syrian regime itself. The 14 tonne shipment of captagon intercepted…

Protests in south are being tolerated as Moscow juggles conflicting interests  A truck drives down a destroyed street in a rebel-held area of Deraa in July 2017. The Syrian regime retook the province from rebels in July…

Turkey’s intervention in Libya has made the conflict there more intractable and destructive. It runs against UN Security Council resolutions and the UN’s efforts to mediate the crisis. Critics see the move as transparently expedient, as…

On July 9, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi revealed that relations between China and the United States were facing the most serious challenges since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1979. This is primarily due to the fact that the…

Peaceful coexistence remains an imperative, no matter how unsavory Putin’s regime might be. The controversy over alleged Russia bounties to the Taliban for killing American soldiers in Afghanistan has underscored once again that the United…

The Guardian’s Luke Harding reflects on the Russia report, Skripal, investigative journalism, and his latest book You have reported extensively on Russia’s interference in western politics. What significance does this…