November 2020

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored violent clashes between Turkish-backed factions and SDF in Mu'allaq village nearby Ain Issa in northern Al-Raqqah. According to SOHR sources, SDF ambushed a group of Turkish-backed factions while…

Regime forces renewed rocket attacks on the "de-escalation zone" in the early hours of Tuesday morning, targeting positions in Al-Fterah, Sfuhen, Fulayfel, Bayanen and Deir Sonbol in the southern countryside of Idlib. No casualties have…

Syrian Observatory activists have reported seeing a new Turkish column of nearly 30 vehicles carrying military and logistical supplies crossing into the Syrian territory in the early hours of Tuesday morning, via Kafr Lusin border crossing…

Syrian Observatory activists have reported seeing members of the 20th Division and other individuals from Deir Ezzor and Al-Raqqah on high alert, in the wake of the arrest of several women of Ekaydat tribe, who came from SDF-held areas to…

During his presidential campaign in 2008, Barack Obama asserted repeatedly that “the sources of Afghan instability are in Pakistan; those in turn are linked to Islamabad’s conflict with New Delhi, at the heart of which is Jammu and…

(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents after signing accords at the White House…

For decades, Turkey and the Kurdish people, an ethnic group native to Kurdistan, have shared a history of tension and violence. This longstanding history has significantly influenced relations between the two sides and is still visible in…

Ten years ago, a chain of uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa region, soon dubbed the "Arab Spring" 2/10 From hope to agony, what's left of the Arab Spring? Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi,…

Israel is trying to make sure that Iran never gains a strong and permanent formal foothold in Syria. Israel just sent a message to Iran that its entrenchment is unacceptable in Syria. Israel launched airstrikes on Iranian Islamic…

In October 2020, as the media reported Russia’s Aerospace forces resuming their strikes against the local armed opposition, Turkey relocating its observation posts, and Syrian militants fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, the global…