The US, Britain and France send a message to Bashar al-Assad to desist from chemical weapons attacks

The US, Britain and France on Friday night launched missile strikes against Syrian research, storage…

President Trump vows retaliation for a reported chemical weapons attack on rebel-held territory outside Damascus

There is mounting international condemnation following the chemical weapons attack over the weekend on the…

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The Counter Narrative Conundrum

Introduction In the backdrop of the Islamic State’s territorial losses in both Syria and Iraq,…

Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with members of the Syrian Democratic Forces raises tensions with Turkey

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused France of meddling in Turkish military operation in Syria…

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows to extend the offensive against Kurdish militants

Turkey has vowed to continue its military campaign in Syria, raising the risk of a…

The death toll in the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta raises doubts about the sincerity of the Russian-led humanitarian pauses

More than 600 people have been killed in eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, since…

The Assad regime pounds the rebel-held suburb of Damascus, killing nearly 500 people over the past six days

On February 18th the Syrian regime of president Bashar al-Assad, with Russian support, began pounding…

The Turkish offensive in north-west Syria risks opening another front in Syria’s tangled seven-year civil war

Turkey, in defiance of the US, sent tanks and warplanes into northwest Syria over the…