Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin officials explicitly rejected making any concessions in future peace negotiations or accepting any US, European, or Ukrainian peace proposals and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) rejected the possibility of a negotiated ceasefire on March 6. Putin stated during a visit to …

Small-scale insurgent cells have started to emerge and attack Syrian interim government forces in certain areas of Syria. Former Assad regime members conducted coordinated attacks on Syrian military checkpoints and patrols in Jableh, Beit Ana, and Daliyah in Latakia Province on March 6.[1] Interim government forces deployed to the area …

In the rugged mountains of northern Iraq, a potential peace breakthrough hangs in the balance. Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), recently issued an unexpected call for disarmament—a move that could end one of the Middle East’s longest-running conflicts. But in the shadow of Turkish …