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Syrian army deploys to south to quell rising anti-Assad insurgency

Jun 1, 2020 @ 9:44Jun 1, 2020 @ 9:44 Diane Shalem 226 Views Deraa, Quneitra, rebels, Russia, South Ssyria, Syrian 4th division, Syrian Golan

Assad has sent his big guns to southern Syria as assassinations and violent disorder peak two years of local insubordination

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How the Syrian war is lifted into Libya’s Battle for Tripoli

Apr 15, 2020 @ 8:43May 3, 2020 @ 8:00 Diane Shalem 2617 Views battle for Tripoli, Libya, Russia, Syrian Fifth Legion, Turkey

Russia has just airlifted into Libya the 350-strong Syrian rebel “Fifth Legion,” once linked to Israel, to combat a second

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Syrian army holds 9 Turkish Idlib outposts to siege ready for showdown battle

Feb 8, 2020 @ 17:27Mar 2, 2020 @ 16:44 Diane Shalem 4102 Views Idlib, refugees, Russia, Turkish outposts, Turkish-Syrian clash in Idlib

The Syrian army has boxed in 9 of the 12 Turkish outposts set up in the northwest province of Idlib,

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US covert cyber war on Iran may prompt Russian, Chinese cyber aid for Tehran against America

Jun 24, 2019 @ 10:41Jul 3, 2019 @ 21:46 Diane Shalem 5945 Views Chinese cyber capacity, Russia, US-Iran cyber war

President Donald Trump is reported widely by US media to have embarked on a covert cyberwar on Iran. Just as,

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The contest over the Strait of Hormuz’s closure has begun at… Libya’s Ras Lanuf

Apr 29, 2019 @ 8:12May 11, 2019 @ 9:12 Diane Shalem 7292 Views Gen. Khalifa Haftar, Libyan oil, Russia, Trump oil sanctions on Iran

Five of Iran’s top leaders have threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic. Why is President Donald

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IDF: Iran’s Al Qods aimed the Fateh-110 missile at Golan, which Iron Dome intercepted

Jan 21, 2019 @ 11:31Jan 26, 2019 @ 15:47 Diane Shalem 7978 Views Al Qods, Fatteh-110, IDF spokesman, Iran, Iron Dome, Israel's Syria operation, Russia, Syria

The ground-to-ground missile aimed at the Golan on Sunday, Jan. 20 was fired by Al Qods and made in Iran,

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Most extensive Israeli attack ever on Soleimani’s military resources in Syria

Jan 21, 2019 @ 5:12Jan 26, 2019 @ 15:48 Diane Shalem 8847 Views Al Qods forces in Syria, Israel attacks Syria, Khmemim, Qassem Soleimani, Russia

Early Monday, Jan 21, the IDF struck Iranian Al Qods forces, command centers and ammo dumps in Syria for 50

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How Shin Bet chief’s election meddling comment on Iran and Hizballah morphed into media frenzy against Russia

Jan 10, 2019 @ 11:07Jan 19, 2019 @ 11:45 Diane Shalem 4013 Views cyber war, Iran/Hizballah, Nadav Argaman, Russia, Shin Bet

Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman carefully avoided names when he warned that a” foreign country” intended interfering in Israel’s coming

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Erdogan calls for joint Turkish-Russian-Iranian control of US pullout from Syria in face of Moscow’s veto

Jan 9, 2019 @ 19:54Jan 19, 2019 @ 11:46 Diane Shalem 9016 Views Erdogan, John Bolton, Kurds, northeast Syria, Russia, Vladimir Putin

Like Washington, Moscow is averse to the Turkish army moving into northern Syrian Kurdish lands after the Americans leave. Yet

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Netanyahu: US will run economic war against Iran, leaving military drive to Israel

Jan 4, 2019 @ 9:05Jan 8, 2019 @ 14:03 Diane Shalem 7438 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Israeli Air Force, Russia, Syria, US pullout from Syria.

That the US retains the economic side of the war on Iran leaving the military campaign for Israel to manage

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