December 2020

About 14 members of the Damascus government and ISIS mercenaries were killed in the mutual clashes between the two sides in the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle. Within the framework of the campaign launched by the Damascus government…

Shafaq News / A logistic and military-aid convoy crossed today, Wednesday, to the territory of the Autonomous Administration in North and Eastern Syria from Kurdistan region through al-Walid border crossing. Local…

Russia’s Defense Ministry says one of its Su-25 warplanes was downed in Syria’s Idlib province on Saturday, and the pilot was killed in a “fight with terrorists.” The Su-25 was providing air support to pro-Assad…

The column of the Russian military came under heavy fire from Turkish militants. On December 20, 2020, Turkish jihadists crossed the “red line” and attacked a convoy of Russian soldiers patrolling in the…

Tahrir al-Sham, one of the largest militias in northern Syria, faces a difficult financial crisis due to a drop in Turkish financial support to it. To make up for this drop in support, Tahrir al-Sham is turning to the theft of Syrian…

More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters have returned to Syria after the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Britain-based Syrian war monitor said Wednesday. A November 9 truce ended more than a month of…

Syrian journalist Hussein Khattab shot and killed while reporting in Aleppo governorate   A Turkish-backed police vehicle is seen in Al-Bab, Syria, on November 24, 2020. Journalist Hussein Khattab was recently shot and killed while…

Over the past weeks, the Russian Aerospace Forces have resumed intense airstrikes on ISIS targets in the central Syrian desert. New Wave Of Russian Airstrikes Hit ISIS Terrorists In Central Syria As Death Toll From Clashes Reaches 22…

The two wars that have taken place in the rebellious Russian province of Chechnya were in many ways the horrifying denouement of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Though confined to “a small corner of hell,” as Anna Politkovskaya, the late…

In the discourse of development, one key institution is not so often spoken about, albeit it should — it is peace, Hobbesian peace if you will, foremost within a country but, of course, also between countries. However, in the UNDP…