Six months after Operation Rising Lion, Iran’s ballistic missile threat to Israel is once again intensifying. While Israel, with decisive U.S. support, dealt a severe blow to Iran’s nuclear program in June, the campaign left Tehran’s conventional missile infrastructure badly damaged but not eliminated. Iran has retained a residual production …

Two civilians were killed and seven others injured in artillery shelling that Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Aleppo attributed to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positioned in the al-Ashrafiya and al-Sheikh Maqsood neighborhoods of Aleppo city. Clashes erupted around the al-Layramoun and Shayhan roundabouts in northern Aleppo today, Monday 22 December, …

Many want to share in a possible boom after the toppling of Assad ended civil war and global isolation, but access is limited Scouting the old quarter of Damascus for a shop to expand his business, gold merchant Mahmoud Radwan encountered both high rents and the open hostility displayed towards …