Tag Archives: Syria

by Ghassan Kadi for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog Even though the Syrian Army, with the aid of its international friends and allies, especially Russia, has been able to score many victories and liberate most of Syria’s major cities from the ...

Israeli media are celebrating. Asghar Bashpour, a top commander in Iran’s Quds Force who was close to its assassinated leader, Qassem Soleimani, has reportedly died in battle in Syria. Bashpour, who was overseeing Iranian operations in Aleppo, was killed at ...

Late on January 15, pro-government forces, led by the 25th Special Mission Forces Division, resumed their offensive operations in Greater Idlib. Since then, they have taken control of several villages including Barsah, Nouhiya, Tell Khatrah, and Khirbat Dawud, west of ...

First, as always, a recap. Turns out that the Iranian strikes were apparently very accurate, check out these photos: This is interesting, because while I had some US ex-Colonel on idiot-box saying that most Iranian missiles either missed or landed ...

A brief overview of  the recent developments in Syria: A large U.S. military convoy entered the city of Qamishli;Russia is reportedly working to create a new pro-government militia in al-Hasakah;A series of firefights between Turkish-led forces and SDF units took ...

Moscow, SANA-Russian Foreign Ministry reaffirmed that the oilfields in Syria must be under the control of the Syrian state. In a statement to journalists on Wednesday in a comment on the US administration’s plans to reinforce its military presence in ...

by Aram Mirzaei for the Saker blog In my previous article on Syria, I expressed scepticism towards Washington’s so called “withdrawal” of troops from Syria. I doubted that Washington would fully withdraw from Syria, as Washington has a history of long occupations ...

Damascus, the SANA news agency reports: President Bashar al-Assad stressed that the scenario broadcast by the US about the killing operation of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Daesh organization, is part of the US tricks and we should not believe  what ...

this analysis was written for the Unz Review] In his recent article “The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War Was Won” Pepe Escobar summarized the outcome of the war in Syria in the following way: “It’s a quadruple win. The ...

On October 21, the Syrian Army continued deploying battle tanks and troops to the northeastern section of Syria, where in fact the Turkish military operation launched earlier this month. The 120-hour long ceasefire announced by the US and Turkey a ...