The organization representing families of hostages held in the Gaza strip is celebrating the news that three male hostages ...
The fall of the brutal Assad regime marks a critical opportunity for the United States to remove itself entirely from Syria, avoiding entanglement in further war. American troops have been in ...
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said Israel leveraged Iran's presence to gain ground in Syria ... He was speaking during a visit to Damascus after Israeli troops had entered the area following ...
At a news conference this month, President-elect Donald Trump bragged, “We defeated ISIS.” It has been a point of pride for him, and it is true. In the first year of Trump’s first term, U ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israeli soldiers on December 17, 2024, on territory they had recently invaded in southern Syria [Handout/Israeli Government Press Office via AP ...
Scattered throughout the Middle East, mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, the Kurds are the largest ... which maintains a force of about 2,000 troops there and in southern Syria.
The United States directly intervened in 2014, deploying troops and supporting Kurds to defeat ISIS. Up until Assad’s fall, US presence also aimed to limit the Iran-led and Russia-backed camp’s ...
While they did not welcome the involvement of Iran and Russia with the Assads, the Arab nations now must contend with non-Arab Turkey which fostered, funded, and protected HTS in Syria’s ...
But they insist that Turkey is not vying to replace the dominance over Syria previously exercised by Iran, which weaponised a destabilising ... since 2016 and is estimated to maintain around 10,000 ...
Israeli troops ... about Iran-backed militias gaining a foothold along the Syrian border. Israeli military aircraft regularly struck Iranian officials and their allies in Syria as part of the ...
Iran has also warned that the Israeli regime, which has moved its troops into and beyond a so-called demilitarized zone along the border with Syria, is taking advantage of the chaos to gain a foothold ...
Mohammad Abedini arrived in Iran on Sunday evening ... a remote U.S. outpost in the Jordanian desert near Syria and Iraq. More than 40 service members were wounded in the attack.