Is ISIS regrouping at Al-Hol?
Growing extremism in Al-Hol runs parallel to signs of ISIS resurgence elsewhere in the region. A Pentagon report in August ...
Tag: Syria
Report: Hezbollah, Iranian forces suffer from mysterious poisoning in Damascus
According to Syrian media, contaminated water traced to area just south of Damascus, although questions remain as to whether there ...
Iraq and Syria open border crossing closed since 2012
Opening expected to increase trade, but also comes as a boost to Iranian influence in the region, as Iranian-backed Shiite ...
Report: Tehran, Moscow at odds over plans to build up military near Damascus
Tehran reportedly wants to set up headquarters and logistics warehouses near Syrian capital, but has run into resistance from Russia ...
US: Syrian government carried out chemical weapon attack in May
"The United States has concluded that the Assad regime used chlorine as a chemical weapon on May 19," Secretary of State Pompeo ...
Former rebel stronghold in Syria begins to rebuild
The town, which had a population of 65,000 when Syria's civil war erupted in 2011, now has only about 4,000 ...
World faces 'unprecedented' threat from terrorism, UN chief warns
"The new frontier is cyberterrorism – the use of social media and the dark web to coordinate attacks, spread propaganda ...
Images show ongoing construction at Iranian militia base near Syria-Iraq border
Pictures from ImageSat International show a heavy contingent of construction equipment and crews at facilities designed to allow Iran to ...
IDF: Armed drone downed by Syrian forces is Iranian, not Israeli
Syrian authorities say they captured and dismantled the drone, which was rigged with cluster bombs, near the Golan Heights. IDF's ...
Book review: 'After ISIS'
As author Seth Frantzman leads us through the sequence of events that slowly squeezed ISIS out of vast areas of ...