17/02/2025 QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – ISIS is capitalizing on a security vacuum left by the Assad regime in the Syrian Desert to stockpile weapons and establish strategic positions, Mazloum Abdi, Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said on Sunday. Speaking to The Times, Abdi stated, “There is a security vacuum. In the desert, Daesh has…
By Dilosoz Youssef HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – After a rainy night, 70-year-old Khalil al-Faraj finished packing his belongings in al-Arisha IDP camp, located in the southern countryside of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, preparing to return to his hometown in Deir ez-Zor, eastern the country, after eight years of displacement. On Feb. 11, hundreds of families departed…
THE WASHINGTON TIMES — 1/27/2025 Dr. David L. Phillips The Syrian Democratic Council plays a pivotal role in Syria’s transition and future constitution. It rejects independence for Rojava, the Kurdish region in northeast Syria, in lieu of power-sharing between Damascus and Syria’s regions. The SDC does not seek a “zero-sum gain,” where its gains come at the expense of others. After 50 years of conflict and hardship, the SDC wants…
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…
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,”…
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…
DAMASCUS, Syria– A suspected Israeli airstrike killed on Monday a Syrian businessman, close to the Syrian government, Muhammad Baraa al-Qatirji, in his car on the Damascus-Beirut highway. North Press correspondent reported that an airstrike, likely to be Israeli, bombed the car of the Syrian al-Qaterji near a tourist area of Yafour, south of Damascus, southern…
