Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday that funerals were held for three soldiers killed in a US attack on a barracks in Iranshahr, in the country’s southeast. On Friday, the Guardsmen announced they had attacked the al-Tanf base, which the Syrian army took control of after the United States withdrew in February. A Syrian […]
The first chapter deals with the Middle East before the Arab Spring. It begins with the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which began with Israel’s declaration of independence on 14 May 1948 by David Ben Gurion, the acting head of the World Zionist Organization. The Arab countries and Israel have been in a state of intermittent war […]
exchange of fire Saturday’s alleged Israeli strike was the second high-profile targeted killing in Syria in less than a month. In December, a senior Iranian general was killed in an airstrike in Syria. Razi Mousavi was the most senior commander of the Quds Force, the foreign operations branch of the Guards, to be killed outside […]
At least 10 pro-Iran militants were killed and 30 others were wounded in airstrikes launched by US forces in eastern Syria on Saturday, a war monitor said. Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, the Middle East has seen an increase in attacks on US forces, which Washington blames on Tehran-aligned armed […]
An Israeli strike in Syria has killed a senior general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the military force said, as Tehran vowed retaliation. The incident has further escalated tensions in the Middle East, where Iran-aligned groups have stepped up attacks since Iran-backed Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, triggering a war with Israel. Iranian […]
Last weekend, Israeli strikes targeted Aleppo airport, wounding five people, a war monitor reported, and putting it out of service, according to officials. During Syria’s more than decade-long war, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on its northern neighbor, mainly targeting Iran-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, as well as Syrian army positions Is. […]
Security forces in northeastern Syria said Turkey launched a series of strikes on Thursday, with more than 15 drones entering the region’s airspace and hitting targets including infrastructure and gas and oil stations. Turkish strikes killed six members of internal security forces in northeastern Syria and two civilians in two separate attacks, security forces said […]
The Observatory said the attack, which also wounded 20 soldiers, came a day after Russia carried out airstrikes on the Jisr al-Shughur region near Idlib, where TIP jihadists are based. Both groups involved in the attack are affiliated with the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which controls parts of Idlib province as well as […]
Cyprus police on Monday rescued 18 Syrian migrants after their boat capsized about 3.5 miles off the southeast coast of the Mediterranean island nation. Police said 11 men, three unidentified minors, a woman and her three children had sailed from Tartus, Syria, and were brought ashore on a police patrol ship. The official Cyprus News […]
An attack on a military bus in Syria’s east killed 23 government soldiers and wounded 10 more, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor blamed on Friday on the Islamic State group, which operates sleeper cells in those countries. governs those whom he once ruled. The attack took place near the city of […]
Government forces control rural areas in the south and east of Raqa province, while Kurdish fighters control the rest. The city of Raqqa was the center of the IS group’s brutal “caliphate” until they were ousted from power in 2017. Last week, IS announced the death of its leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, whom it […]
While Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates, have pushed for Syria and Assad’s rehabilitation, others, including Qatar, have been opposed to full normalization without a political solution to the Syrian conflict. Few are willing to set terms for Syria’s return, with Jordan’s foreign minister saying last week that re-admitting Syria by the Arab League […]