On Monday 17th September, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formation of a 15 to 25 kilometre-wide demilitarised zone (DMZ) in Syria’s northern rebel-held province of Idlib. The agreement, which was announced following a summit between the tw...

While Idlib remains the focus of attention in northern Syria, tensions have been brewing in the north-eastern Syrian city of Qamishli, in Hasakah Province, where demonstrations broke out in opposition to the forced closure of a number of private Christian schools on 28th August. An estimated 500 pe...

After Eastern Ghouta and Daraa were taken by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) earlier this year, the Syrian Government has begun to divert its attention towards the last remaining region under the control of the rebels, Greater Idlib. While the battle for the Greater Idlib Region has not officially taken ...