Erdoğan lambasts Israel for undermining stability in Syria Turkey’s president lashes out shortly after talks with Netanyahu’s government aimed at defusing tensions The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2025
What We Know About Syria's New Government Syria's new government, dominated by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's inner circle, faces the daunting challenge of gaining the trust of Syrians, as well as that of Western countries to secure sanctions relief. International Business Times · Mar 30, 2025
Syria's southern rebels loom large as the country's new rulers try to form a national army Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2025
Syria Rebel Leader Says Goal Is To Overthrow Assad Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published on Friday. International Business Times · Dec 6, 2024
Why the rebel capture of Syria's Hama, a city with a dark history, matters One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian President Hafez Assad launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2024
Who is Massad Boulos? What we know about Tiffany’s father-in-law and Trump’s pick for Middle East adviser The Lebanese-American billionaire spent weeks during the campaign courting Arab-American and Arab voters The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2024
Why does Israel keep launching attacks in Syria? Israel launched two of its largest and deadliest strikes on Syria in the past week, promising even more attacks. Al Jazeera · Apr 4, 2024
Fears of escalation grow as dozens die in SDF-militia fighting in Syria Arab tribesmen blame violence on ‘years-long discrimination’ by the SDF in northeast Syria. Al Jazeera · Sep 7, 2023
Syria cracked down on Wagner after mutiny in Russia: Report Syrian authorities swiftly moved to isolate and control Wagner operatives after the mercenary group staged a rebellion. Al Jazeera · Jul 7, 2023
Arab League nations welcome back longtime pariah Syria at annual summit BEIRUT — In March 2013, with almost 100,000 dead in the then two-year Syrian revolution against President Bashar Assad, a Muslim cleric who headed the Syrian opposition was welcomed to take the country's seat at the annual summit of Arab leaders. Los Angeles Times · May 19, 2023
Analysis: How important is Syria’s return to the Arab League? Many Arab states have accepted that Bashar al-Assad’s government has survived in Syria, and want to return to normality. Al Jazeera · May 19, 2023
Syria's main insurgent group seeks to move away from al-Qaida past, get off Western terrorism lists The leader of the most powerful al-Qaida-linked group in northwest Syria is rebranding his organization by moving away from extremist factions The Independent UK · May 14, 2023
Analysis: Iran eases its regional isolation with Saudi deal Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore diplomatic relations, but Tehran is likely to keep its foreign policy pillars. Al Jazeera · Mar 14, 2023
Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war's divisions Aid workers say getting aid into Syria after this week’s devastating earthquake has been hampered by the country’s deep fragmentation from years of war The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2023
France 24 · Nov 28, 2022 'We humiliated ourselves': Sweden’s bid to join NATO meets continued resistance from Turkey May 18, 2022, was a big day for Sweden. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and more than 200 years of non-military alignment, the Nordic country finally broke with tradition and applied for NATO membership along with Finland. But what was supposed to be an easy accession has proven to be…
The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2022 Erdoğan asks Russia and Iran to back Turkey’s incursion into Syria Turkish president cites Kurdish forces in north-west Syria as justification for extending zone of control
Daily Mirror · Jul 7, 2022 Vladimir Putin poised to starve millions in evil plan cutting off last aid route Dr Salem Abdan, Idlib's Health Director, said that if Russia carries out their threat of cutting aid coming into Syria from Turkey then millions of civilians will starve and die