Hezbollah’s military commander in Syria Mustafa Badreddine killed by rebels
Hezbollah has confirmed its military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, was killed in Syria earlier this week in a “major explosion” carried out by rebels at...
ISIS second-in-command al-Adnani killed in Syria
ISIS's official news agency has confirmed the death of their spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani who was killed whilst surveying operations in Aleppo.
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani,...
Egypt and the “Emperor with no clothes”
News that former president Hosni Mubarak has been released from jail demonstrated that the regime has removed its final fig leaf, the emperor revealed...
Why I predict a flaming June for the Arab world
Veteran Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan predicts a major escalation in Syria this summer...
Sources close to Arab and Gulf decision-makers suggest that serious –...
Theresa May unlikely to increase UK quota for Syrian refugees
Theresa May will use her speech at the UN General Assembly today to call for more measures to help countries to protect their borders...
Leader of Jaysh al-Islam, Zahran Alloush reportedly killed in Russian airstrike
The leader of one of the most powerful Syrian rebel groups has been reported to have been killed in a Russian airstrike near the...
Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al Sadr calls on Bashar al Assad to step down
Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has become the first major Shia leader to call on Syrian President Bashar al Assad to step down.
Sadr, who is...
President Erdogan says Afrin is under Turkish and Free Syrian Army control
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that Turkish-backed rebels have taken total control of the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin in northern Syria.
Yesterday morning,...
ISIS and “moderate” Syrian rebels strike truce
The "Islamic State" has reportedly struck a deal with "moderate" Syrian rebels not to fight each other and focus on toppling the Assad government....
Iran’s fear grows over Turkey buffer zone in Syria
It appears that the United States and its Western allies (France and the United Kingdom) have agreed to Turkish President Receb Tayyip Erdogan’s demand...
