November 2020

Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFPRussian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hold a meeting in Damascus on January 7, 2020. Russia, a main ally of Damascus, has for years sought international support in…

SOHR sources say that Turkish-backed factions stationed at Hamdoosh farm west of Abu Racine (Zarkan) area of Hasakeh countryside, have shelled regime forces' positions in Tel Abu Racine, Rabia'at and Tal Mohammed, but no casualties have…

Daraa governorate - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that a person working in the drug trade was killed, according to local sources in the area in Daraa al-Balad, after being targeted today by unidentified gunmen…

A half century after Hafez Assad launched a bloodless coup in Syria, his family still rules the country. BEIRUT (AP) — On Nov. 13, 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup.…

Half a century already! Fifty years ago, Hafez Al Assad, Bashar’s father, took power in Syria after what turns out to be more of a coup than a coup. It was November 13, 1970. Assad, who has already made a place for himself in the…

After nearly a decade of war, Syrians have endured more than 500,000 deaths, over 200 chemical attacks, 12 million displacements, and nearly 130,000 recorded disappearances. Although the Assad regime’s stranglehold on the state persists,…

President Bashar al-Assad said the millions of citizens who fled during the war have been blocked from coming back. But he left out the main reason they are staying away: Mr. al-Assad himself. In a photo…

Share On November 9th, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Armenia and Azerbaijan had halted 44 days of fighting that started on September 27th when Azerbaijan’s military forces attacked Armenian units that have occupied…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFISeEaQUBc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish The Azeri government has extended the deadline by 10 days to ethnic Armenians living in parts of Nagorno-Karabakh to leave before land is given to Azerbaijan.…

Russian peacekeepers' convoy drive through a street in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Ethnic Armenian forces had controlled Nagorno-Karabakh and sizeable adjacent territories since the…