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Capital and largest city of Syria
The recent surge of anger and violence is rooted less in sudden mass hatred than in a decade of competing governance projects, shifting alliances, and local grievances—especially , its security forces...
Ahmed al‑Sharaa, leader of the rebel coalition that toppled Bashar al‑Assad in December 2024, was appointed Syria’s transitional (interim) president on 29 January 2025 and has led the interim governme...
J. Christopher "Chris" Stevens was a career U.S. diplomat and the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, until his death in the coordinated attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi on September 11–...
Donald Trump’s October 2019 announcement to withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria is portrayed in the provided analyses as a defining, contested moment that reshaped his military legacy by crea...
has played an active, often interventionist role in the conflict: seeking to secure its border, prevent the emergence of a contiguous Kurdish-controlled zone, back anti‑Assad opposition forces and pro...
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), dominated by Fatah, has historically received political, military and diplomatic support from Arab states (notably Syria and Egypt at different times), san...
has publicly declared that will no longer serve as a staging ground for ian weapons and proxies, telling regional and Western audiences he will expel or deny Iran’s foothold and close former “weapons ...
face a complex calculus in any : tactical gains in survival, training, and indirect support are weighed against strategic risks of political isolation, a breakdown in , and regional and Syria’s govern...
is contested: regional governments and commentators accuse the SDF of covert coordination with Israel, while SDF leaders deny any such links and point to competing security dynamics on the ground . Re...
is in the midst of a rapid government drive to reassert control over the northeast, with forces of interim president seizing key towns, oilfields and border crossings and negotiating a ceasefire that ...
The city of has been effectively cut off and under sustained pressure since mid-January as advanced into surrounding areas, producing what Kurdish authorities and humanitarian actors describe as a sie...
The claim that “ are the way the West wants the Middle East to go” contains a grain of truth — Western states have repeatedly partnered with Kurdish forces when it served counter‑terrorism and tactica...
Multiple independent and regional outlets report that has been effectively bed in late January–early February 2026, with residents and aid groups saying the city was encircled, cut off from electricit...
’s interim government and the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) forces that underpin it have been credibly accused of widespread since taking effective control of large parts of , including torture and deat...
The in early 2026 is one of sharp contraction but active negotiation: after advanced into large swathes of , the both withdrew from some sites and struck deals to integrate elements into ’s security a...
Published evidence for i intelligence and covert operations in since 2024 includes public Israeli military acknowledgements and footage of commando raids, reporting by based on anonymous officials, mo...
’s instrumentalization of Kurdish grievances—what critics call “”—can be framed to generate sympathetic public and elite support for limited interventions in , but the evidence in contemporary reporti...
The sources do not show a straight, overt or the guarantors to hand the and regions to ; rather, the January 2026 agreement and surrounding diplomacy contained provisions and concessions — notably the...
Between 2012 and 2016 Jabhat al‑Nusra emerged as one of the n conflict’s most effective and visible jihadist forces, claiming and being credited with numerous suicide bombings, complex attacks on Syri...
A clear, single-party attribution for in northeast Syria during the recent is not established in open reporting: statements accuse the SDF of deliberately releasing detainees, while officials say they...