A high-level Lebanese delegation visited Syria some days ago in the first such visit to Damascus since relations were frozen due to the Arab and Western boycott of the regime led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
The visit by Zeina Akar, (...)
Despite its military superiority and its declared intention to take control of the southern city of Daraa, the last stronghold of the opposition in the south of the country, the regime led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has thus far not been (...)
After considerable Western and international pressure, numerous warnings from humanitarian agencies, and a Russian-US summit meeting, Russia refrained from using its veto to prevent the passage of a UN Security Council Resolution to extend the use (...)
Despite a boycott by the opposition, the predetermined rejection of the results by many Western countries, and the US saying it will not recognise the elections and does not see them as part of a political solution to the crisis in Syria, the regime (...)
According to the law, presidential elections should have been held in Syria this month, but the Syrian government delayed them in order to announce the procedures that would be used.
A period has now been set aside for prospective candidates to (...)
In the wake of repeated failures to achieve a solution to the Syrian crisis, some Syrian observers are now talking about the imminent formation of a joint military council composed of dissident opposition officers and officers who still serve the (...)
The US carried out an airstrike on 25 February targeting what it described as “Iran-backed militias” in Syria in the first military operation by the new administration of US President Joe Biden.
The Pentagon said that US military forces had carried (...)
Following the battle of Baghuz on 9 February 2019 by the US-led Coalition via its Kurdish partners the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Deir Al-Zor in eastern Syria close to the border with Iraq, the Kurds claimed that many prisoners and (...)
A Syrian research centre said in a widely publicised report on 17 January that a meeting had taken place between Israeli and Syrian officials at the Hmeimim military base in Latakia in western Syria that is being used by Russia as an air base.
The (...)
What began as protests demanding reform and the lifting of the heavy hand of the security agencies in Syria in 2011 has mushroomed over the past decade into a long and bitter conflict with the involvement of intertwining domestic, regional and (...)
Changes in US policy towards Syria after the election of President-elect Joe Biden in November's US presidential elections remain unclear in scale and direction, and there has been little clarity on the team Biden will choose to manage the Syria (...)
Media reports said this week that Turkey has been sending Syrian combatants to support Azerbaijan amid the escalating fighting with Armenia over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Thousands of Syrians from the Syrian National Army (SNA), the main (...)
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has proclaimed that the Syrian people “do not want to change the constitution” and that “it is not a priority.” He has said that the Syrians “only want amendments that impact their daily lives” and has described (...)
Some five months have passed since the US began to enforce further economic sanctions against the Syrian regime and several of its leading figures through the Caesar Act signed by US President Donald Trump in December 2019.
The legislation put in (...)
Lebanon will suffer from the wounds of the massive Beirut explosion for decades to come, and so will its immediate neighbour Syria. But in the short term, the regime led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad looks set to garner benefits from it.
Syria (...)
The Kurds in control of northeastern Syria, affiliated to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a listed terrorist group in Turkey, have been holding meetings with the Kurdish National (...)
On 17 June, the US announced it had begun implementing the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which targets the Syrian regime and parties cooperating with or supporting it.
Washington also issued a first list of 39 people and entities under (...)
With the Syrian conflict remaining at a standstill politically and militarily, Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed the Russian Ambassador to Damascus Alexander Yefimov as the special representative of the Russian president for the (...)
Out of nowhere, Rami Makhlouf, a maternal cousin of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and a prominent businessman who controls large chunks of Syria's economy, appeared in a video on social media addressing Al-Assad and declaring that the Syrian (...)
In defiance of UN appeals for a freeze on armed conflicts in the Middle East while the world fights the Covid-19 pandemic, Israel staged a pre-dawn attack on a suburb of Damascus on Monday. It did not comment on the strikes, which caused several (...)
Countries the world over are suffering from the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted their social, political and economic activities, putting a serious strain on governments and financial resources.
This is also true for Syria, where (...)
As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, the government led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has not admitted there are any cases in Syria even though it has announced the shutdown of the country.
Despite its denials, the threat of the (...)
The Syrian regime has announced the closure of schools, universities and public places, reduced working hours, and allowing working women to be on leave in its efforts to halt any spread of the coronavirus in Syria.
Scientific, cultural, social and (...)
The move by Turkey to send Syrian combatants to Libya to fight alongside factions supporting the Government of National Accord has triggered a maelstrom among Syrians and on the Arab and international stage.
The storm began when human-rights sources (...)
Amid tensions in Russian-Turkish relations after the Syrian army targeted Turkish military positions in Idlib in north-west Syria, many observers are now hopeful about a summit meeting that will bring the presidents of Turkey and Russia together (...)