Military intervention in syria

ISIS terrorist who killed two US troops was member of Syrian security forces, local officials say

A Syrian interior ministry spokesperson told Syrian television channel Al-Ikhbariya that the attacker did not have a leadership role in the security forces.

A Coalition convoy of US-led international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stops to test fire their M2 machine guns and MK19 grenade launcher in the Middle Euphrates River Valley in the Deir ez-Zor province, Syria, November 22, 2018
 The gate on the border from the Golan Heights into Syria at Majdal Shams, May 3, 2025.

IDF renews incursion into Syria's Quneitra Governorate, state media claims - report

Syria's newly appointed president for a transitional phase Ahmed al-Shaara meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025.

Syria seeks Turkey's help to train armed forces amid rising tensions - analysis

 The Northern Command Commander visited the forces of the 474th Special Operations Group in Syria during their mission in front defense in the area

IDF troops reach Damascus’ doorstep, uncover Syrian military weakness


Turkey: U.S. to end weapons support for Syrian Kurdish YPG

Washington has angered Ankara by providing arms, training and air support to the Syrian Kurdish forces.

KURDISH FIGHTERS from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) run across a street in Raqqa, Syria in July.

Airstrike on Iranian base in Syria raises questions

Why did it take so long to target the facility and in whose interest was it to reveal the facility to the public?

Israeli soldiers stand atop tanks overlooking the border between Israel and Syria

Syrian media claims ISIS leader dead... again

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said to have been killed in Raqqa attack amid advances by US-led coalition forces.

A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al Baghdadi made a rare public appearance at a mosque in the center of Mosul, on July 5, 2014.

Syria – the beginning of the end? The Sunni side

In 2013, the US designated the al-Nusra Front a terrorist organization, since it was a branch of al-Qaida in Syria.

Syrian refugee children pose as they play near their families' residence at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 30, 2016.

Comment: White privilege and the love of dictators - the Syrian case

Those who oppose Assad are described as “ISIS [Islamic State] and Al-Qaida...terrorist groups supported by the US government, Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.”

LEBANESE HOLD posters at a protest in front of the Arab League headquarters, in Beirut in 2011. The Syrian regime is still in power today

Russian naval deployment en route to escalate Aleppo destruction

"This is not a friendly port call. In two weeks, we will see a crescendo of air attacks on Aleppo as part of Russia's strategy to declare victory there," a NATO diplomat said.

Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in international waters off the coast of Northern Norway.

Tensions with Assad regime rise following mortars and air strikes

IDF’s policy is to retaliate to every case of Syrian fire into Israeli territory, whether stray or deliberate.

Mortar shells land on Golan Heights (Illustration)

What’s behind the Manbij offensive in Syria?

The US made its choice to back PYD a while ago as the main support against ISIS. It thinks groups in the northern countryside will join the SDF sooner or later, but the American plan will not work.

Smoke rises during fighting in the village of Ahmadiyah in Syria, as seen from the Israeli side of the border fence between Syria and the Golan Heights [File]

Saudi Arabia prepared for ground war in Syria, military spokesman says

A Senior Saudi defense official said that his country wants to defeat Islamic State.

A member of a militia kneels as he celebrates victory next to a wall painted with the black flag commonly used by ISIS terrorists.

A 'Cold War 2.0' playing out in the Middle East

Putin's government tries to establish a security belt stretching from Iraq to the Mediterranean, expert tells the "Post."

Ariel Cohen,senior fellow at the Atlantic Council