Trump phases Arab forces into Syria vs Iran ahead of US pullout. Egyptian/UAE officers on the scene
When Sen. Lindsay Graham said Monday, Dec. 31: “I think we are slowing things [exit from Syria] down in a
More...
Bashar Assad
Scrap over Manbij opens door for Russia and Assad’s troops to take control of NE. Syria
One of Bashar Assad’s best weeks in years – and one of Tayyip Erdogan’s worst – peaked on Friday, Dec.
More...
Iran demands guaranteed Russian/Syrian backing against US-Israeli offensive in Syria
Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami arrived in Damascus on Sunday, Aug. 26 demanding Russian and Syrian commitments to stand foursquare
More...
Israeli, Russian defense chiefs to meet Thursday in Moscow. Netanyahu: Iran must leave ALL Syria
PM Netanyahu said on May 28 Iran must quit all parts of Syria, qualifying Lavrov’s comment that only Syrian forces
More...
Are US, Russia, Assad lining up against Iran in Syria?
The Trump-Pompeo steps against Iran, widely criticized as unrealistic, are a calculated strategy partnered by Israel, with Moscow’s partial hush
More...
Quarter million new Syrian refugees. Turks take Afrin city. Al Ghouta about to fall to Assad
The Turkish army and its surrogates took control on Sunday March 18 of the Kurdish Afrin City in northern Syria,
More...
Moscow brokers provisional Turkish-Syrian truce in Afrin
An armed clash between the Turkish and Syrian armies over the disputed Afrin enclave was narrowly averted this week by
More...
Assad in rare message to Israel: We won’t start war or let foreign forces control our borders
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Bashar Assad used a European go-between to send this secret message to PM Binyamin Netanyahu. A similar note
More...
Putin plans to end Alawite hegemony in Damascus and evict pro-Iranian Shiite militias including Hizballah
Vladimir Putin has drawn up this plan for the Sochi conference. He will put it before Binyamin Netanyahu when they
More...
Erdogan holds back on threatened conquest of Afrin, goes for Manjib
The Turkish president has told Trump and Putin he would not seize N. Syrian Afrin from the Kurds after insignificant
More...