January 2021

AFP PHOTO / HO / SANASyrian air defence intercepts a purported Israeli missile in the sky over the Syrian capital Damascus on February 24, 2020. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 18 sites hit in deadliest Israeli…

Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria early Wednesday. The Associated Press cited a senior U.S. intelligence official with knowledge of the attacks as saying the strikes targeted warehouses being used to store and…

Some prominent establishment figures think the new US president will follow in the footsteps of the Trump administration. For decades, foreign policy and international relations experts have furiously debated two general…

Alina Gorlova’s second feature follows the inner journey of Red Cross volunteer Andriy Suleyman, who flees the Syrian civil war only to be caught up in another military conflict in a small Eastern Ukrainian town. Can the…

Establishing a foothold in the German capital, Berlin, Malek Al-Muzayen set up a platform called Bee Order, an app that allows restaurant patrons to order food from their table using a QR code. Which he took to his home-land.…

A six-year-old boy has died and more than 20,000 children have been displaced by heavy flooding in North West Syria, Save the Children said today. At least 41,200 people have been affected by a heavy storm which has caused extreme…

The U.N. had pressured Turkey to probe the "political nature" of the attack. American journalist, her mother murdered in Istanbul. Why didn’t the US investigate? Turkish authorities have rebuffed a request from…

Federal prosecutors have flipped an Islamic State soldier who has agreed to testify against an accused Islamic State fighter from Dearborn captured on a Syrian battlefield three years ago, an unprecedented level of cooperation during the…

Beyond the oil wells, Syrians rummage through rubbish in a desperate search for something to sell, repurpose – or eat. A child sifts through a rubbish dump near an oil field in the countryside of al-Malikiya in northeast…

The Middle East has navigated another tense year without the outbreak of a major conflict. But tensions remain, many of them surrounding Israel, which contends with four serious simultaneous border conflicts. The officials…