On Sunday (29th March), the spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mustafa Bali, announced that ISIS militants at the Sina’a prison in Ghweran, Hasakah, began rioting and tearing down the walls and doors on the first floor of the prison. According to Bali, some managed to escape. The...

On Sunday, the Minister of Health of the Syrian Government, Nizar Yazji, announced that the first case of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) had been detected in Syria. Yazji told reporters that the carrier, a woman who allegedly came from Lebanon, was asymptomatic and the virus was detected during her arrival ...

For much of the first two months of 2020, Idlib has witnessed a steady escalation of fighting between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed by Russia, Iran and a number of allied militias, and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), which supports a number of factions, most prominently the Syrian National Army...

Despite diplomatic to-and-fro between Moscow and Ankara, tensions between the two countries over the situation in Idlib continue to intensify. Over the course of the past week, a series of events have occurred that threatens to exacerbate the situation even more. On Thursday 27th of January, around ...

On Wednesday 12th February, a patrol of the United States-led International Coalition was involved in a brief altercation in the village of Khirbet Hamo outside the city of Qamishli, north-eastern Syria, when local villagers, as well as some pro-Syrian Government militiamen, attempted to prevent the...

During the late hours of 2nd February 2020, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled an observation post of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) around the strategic town of Saraqib, Idlib Province, which the SAA had been pushing towards as part of their on-going military offensive in the region. Marking one of...