by David L. Phillips, opinion contributor – 12/26/24 11:00 AM ET The U.S. and Turkey risk a confrontation if Turkey or its jihadist proxies attack the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), America’s ally fighting ISIS. Defeating ISIS is still a work in progress; the Kurds are guarding thousands of ISIS prisoners in northeast Syria. If they redeploy to…
By David L. Phillips Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan and Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric who died last week, were political allies and business partners. They engineered an Islamist take-over of the civil service and police until a disagreement in 2013 dividing the spoils. When Gulen’s allies in the judiciary launched an investigation into Erdogan’s dealings,…
By VEYSI DAG OCTOBER 21, 2024 04:32 The Middle East has experienced a significant upheaval since the ratification of the Abraham Accords in September 2020, which marked a paradigm shift in the Arab-Israel conflict – ongoing since the end of World War II – paving the way for a new era of harmonious relations between Israel…
The Syrian regime forces committed a new massacre in the villages of Jadeed Bakara and al-Dahalah after shelling the villages with rockets and artillery, where the number of martyrs reached 11 martyrs, most of them children and women. At 02:30 on Friday, the regime forces began shelling the two villages with rockets from their bases…
Four civilians, including two children, were martyred and four others injured in a Syrian regime shelling on the village of al-Dahalah, Deir Ezzor eastern countryside.On the night of Thursday to Friday, at approximately 02:30 a.m., the Syrian regime forces stationed on the western bank of the Euphrates River launched a barrage of rockets and artillery…
Non-governmental organisation Maloca Internationale, which operates under the umbrella of the UN and in the international arena, submitted a report to the 80th session of the UN Committee against Torture, which started on 8 July and will continue until 26 July. The report draws attention to the rights violations in the regions under the occupation…
Jul 13, 2024 QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A United Nations agency released on Friday a report highlighting how sanctions against Syria affected the lives of the Syrian people. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) released a report titled “Dynamics and Unintended Effects of Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs) against the Syrian Arab Republic,”…
Jul 15, 2024 QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Syrians in the government-held areas started on Monday to head to the ballot boxes to elect new members for the parliament. There are 1,516 government-approved candidates running this year for the 250-seat Syrian parliament. Some 8,151 polling stations were set up in 15 voting districts in government-held…
USCENTCOM said in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) that Kurilla visited from July 12 to 14 U.S. military facilities in Syria and Jordan “to assess force protection improvements and the overall defeat ISIS campaign.” The statement added that Kurilla met on July 13 with the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Yousef Alhnaity…
By Omar Abdurrahman DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – The orchards of the city of al-Jalaa in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, that were once recreation destinations for the people of the area, have been turned into military sites under the control of the Islamic State (ISIS) and then the Iranian-backed militias…
