As the U.S. administration considers whether to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, understanding its nature, development, and ideology is essential to making an informed decision. There is much about it that differentiates it from a conventional armed force. One fundamental aspect of its ideology …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled a new project in several parts of northern Syria, which will allow the return of one million Syrian refugees to those areas. In a video message to Syrians on Tuesday, Erdogan said that the project covers 13 areas in northern Syria, including Azaz, …

After affirming that the Israeli occupation entity supports the neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, revealed today that there are “Israeli” mercenaries fighting in Ukraine alongside the extremist nationalists. Zakharova, in an interview with Sputnik Agency, added that there are “Israeli” mercenaries fighting alongside …

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its third month, the war’s direct effects have seemingly started to cast a shadow over military and political balances in Syria. This is especially true since the Russia that began the war is no longer the same Russia — particularly given the military, …

U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to reach out directly to the Syrian government to seek the return of American journalist Austin Tice. Tice’s parents told Axios that their son has been missing in Syria since 2012. The U.S. website noted that Tice’s parents, Mark and Debra Tice, believe that …

Last week, two researchers broke a bombshell when they uncovered a documented war crime, which the Assad regime in Syria had committed back in 2013. The Dutch scholar Uğur Ümit Üngör and the Syrian researcher Annsar Shahoud spent two years working on a video that they received showing members of …

Gazprom cuts off gas to Poland and Bulgaria, the Czechs discuss defence cooperation with the US, and Hungary becomes the first target of the EU’s new mechanism to withhold funds from member states that break the rule of law. Russia has been trying to split the West for years, with …

The separatist authorities in Tiraspol are being pulled steadily into the war between Russia and Ukraine despite their best efforts not to get involved. Given its geographical proximity to Ukraine, and the high number of Ukrainian citizens living in the Transnistria, the de-facto authorities of the breakaway Moldovan region have …

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought other historical tensions to the surface as some in Kyiv accuse neighbouring Hungary of coveting their territory. Andras Bartal has a dream. It will take decades to realise it, but, in Bartal’s vision, Hungary will take back Transcarpathia, a region or oblast in the …

Europe can find alternatives to Russian gas, but can Russia find the consumers to replace Europe?In halting gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, the Kremlin is putting “false political ideas” ahead of the interests of Gazprom and the Russian economy, Russian energy analyst Mikhail Krutikhin says. Poland, which according to …