August 2020

A powerful blast ripped through a pickup truck in the southern province of Daraa in Syria today, killing 21 people including four children, a monitoring group said. BEIRUT // A powerful blast ripped through a pickup truck in…

​​​​​​​Northern and eastern Syria has witnessed tension between the Syrian government forces and the International Coalition forces, while Lebanon awaits the moment of pronouncing the verdict on the murder of Rafik Hariri, while Turkey…

ERBIL — An explosion on Tuesday rocked a checkpoint held by the Turkey-backed Syrian Islamist rebels near Gre Spie (Tel Abyad), leaving several people killed and injured. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the explosion…

BEIRUT: Two Syrian soldiers were killed on Monday in a coalition air strike in Qamishli after government forces at a checkpoint turned back a coalition patrol, a war monitor said. The strike, confirmed by state news agency Sana, was…

Developed in a collaboration between the Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency, the R9X Hellfire variant was technically a secret. Credit: Handout. Abu Yahya al-Uzbeki, an independent “military trainer” recently…

Activists say the Syrian opposition have shot down a regime warplane. (Reuters) BEIRUT: Activists say US-backed Syrian opposition have shot down a regime warplane in the southeast, with the fate of the…

In a September, 2019 photo, U.S. and Turkish military forces conduct a joint ground patrol in northeast Syria. U.S.-led coalition and partner forces returned fire after an attack on their convoy near a Syrian military checkpoint Monday,…

Greece has been found to have secretly and illegally expelled over 1,000 refugees from its shores in recent months, abandoning many of them at sea around the border of Greek territorial waters. According to a report by the New York…

On Valentine’s Day in 2005 Lebanon’s Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was in a motorcade on Beirut’s seafront when a blast blew up his convoy. The explosion resulted in 22 dead and 226 injured. Hariri’s assassination was a disruptive force in…

Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe blast near Beirut's seafront killed Hariri and 21 other people A UN-backed court has found a member of the militant group Hezbollah guilty of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese…