Trump’s attempts to improve ties with both Turkey and Saudi Arabia brought about the US lending its endorsement to al-Sharaa’s Islamist regime in Damascus. The result is that al-Sharaa has now set about, at the very least, failing to prevent (here, here and here) wholesale attempts, apparently by his own …

Internal security units of Syria’s Interior Ministry began entering Hassakeh on Monday as a deal with the U.S.-backed terrorist group YPG is being implemented. To begin the implementation process, a convoy consisting of eight armored personnel carriers belonging to Syria’s Interior Ministry, numerous four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, an ambulance, and a …

Syrian government forces entered the ethnically mixed city of Hasakah on Monday and prepared to do the same in Kobani and Qamishli, under the first phase of a deal to integrate areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces. The National witnessed about 15 armoured vehicles and police cars carrying roughly …