Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is feeling confident these days—at least publicly—as he boasted on Sunday that his country “managed to foil the Western project” in that country’s civil war. Assad was further quoted by the official Syrian Arab News…
Israel and Iran have been archenemies on a national level for decades, but once upon a time the countries were actually secret allies. Despite the Iranian leadership’s professed hatred of Israel in more recent times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
The Syrian civil war has turned into a power vacuum pulling in fighters from all directions and many nations, with many of them fighting each other in which there are at least three or four sides in the conflict. Yet…
The death toll for the Syrian civil war has reached hundreds of thousands of persons killed, and now a rights group is saying they have evidence that tens of thousands of those dead were not killed on the battlefield but…
In the current “cessation of hostilities” in Syria, it was considered noteworthy when Russia said it was pulling its military out of the country. It turns out that Russian jets are leaving Syria, but that doesn’t mean Russia is leaving.…
Russia—which has spent months bombing targets in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime in that nation’s civil war—is now claiming that adding new ground troops from Assad enemies could start a world war. This same week, the Russians…