For much of the Syrian civil war, the southern city of Deraa and the surrounding Houran Plains, an agricultural region near the Jordanian border, were divided between government forces and armed rebels. Fighting raged back and forth, killing thousands. It was not until Russia backed a government offensive in 2018 …

A group of factions affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army have formed a new alliance known as the Syrian Liberation Front intended to end the power struggle between Turkey’s allied factions in northern Syria. On Sept. 9, five factions affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army announced that they …

In his first foreign visit as Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi will sit down with Russian and Pakistani leaders amid new regional dynamics triggered by the US departure from Afghanistan. President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran arrived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe Thursday to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization …

Turkey is seeking to downplay the jihadi threat that its troops face in Idlib, the last Islamist stronghold in Syria, opting to turn the spotlight to the Kurds instead. After losing three soldiers in a bomb attack in Idlib, the last bastion of Islamist rebels in Syria, Turkey pounded Syrian …

India’s foreign policy is at a crossroads in Afghanistan, where past policy decisions are producing strategic, moral, and political consequences. To a large extent, India made a mistake, as many Western powers did: it put its faith and confidence in the Ashraf Ghani government, while rivals such as China and …

The Taliban’s record in recent weeks on making good on promises to respect human and women’s rights as well as uphold freedom of the press is mixed at best. Afghanistan’s neighbours and near-neighbours are not holding their breath even if some are willing to give the Central Asian country’s new …

Trasladar la responsabilidad de los altos precios de la energía eléctrica a las empresas generadoras, como si éstas no operaran en un mercado estrictamente regulado por el Gobierno, supone hacerse trampas en el solitario y, sobre todo, tratar a los ciudadanos como menores de edad, incapaces de asumir las consecuencias …

Es ist von größter Bedeutung für Dänemark, wer in Deutschland Kanzler wird. Doch auch wenn der Sozialdemokrat Olaf Scholz derzeit die Nase vorn hat, bedeutet es nicht automatisch eine reibungslose Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Regierungen der beiden Länder, meint Siegfried Matlok. Denn es gibt deutliche Unterschiede. Die meisten Dänen kannten bisher …

TankerTrackers.com has visual confirmation that an Iranian tanker is discharging gasoil in Syria’s Baniyas port which is destined for neighbouring Lebanon, the online oil shipment tracking service said on Tuesday. “Unable to deliver directly by sea to Lebanon due to sanctions, the vessel went instead to Baniyas, Syria, for land …

Egypt’s president met Tuesday with Libya’s parliament speaker and a powerful military commander as Cairo pushes for the withdrawal of foreign forces and the holding of elections as scheduled in December. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi received Speaker Aguila Saleh and Gen. Khalifa Hifter, commander of the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed …