Over the weekend of the 27th and 28th October, reports emerged of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) suffering a complete rout in the areas surrounding the ISIS-controlled southern Euphrates Valley, Deir ez-Zour Province. Following a number of attacks carried out against the SDF last week, ISIS took...

On Tuesday 16th October, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded to the failure of the militant group Hayy’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to withdraw from the Idlib de-militarised zone (DMZ) following the passing of Monday’s deadline. Peskov stated that although some groups designated as extre...

On Friday 5th October, a sit-in protest was organised at the Suweida Governorate Building in response to the third recent killing of a Druze hostage by ISIS. At the beginning of that week, Thawrat Fadil, who was captured at the village of Shabkai following ISIS’ 25th July attack of Suweida City, ...

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 ...

On the morning of Wednesday, July 25th, a series of suicide bombings targeted the districts of Maslakh and Souk districts in Suweida City. The attacks, which were claimed by the Islamic State (IS), were followed by a series of assaults, raids and offensives on the city, as well as on the towns and v...

While southern Syria remains a current focus of attention in light of the Syrian Government’s ongoing offensive across Daraa Province, emerging yet underreported developments in the north of the country represent other important inroads for the future of the Syrian Conflict. In recent days, there ...

In a worrying development, the Islamic State (IS) released a video saying that the group will execute six Iraqi men that were kidnapped last week on the Baghdad-Kirkuk Road unless female IS prisoners (some of whom thought to be related to the militants) are released from prison. In the video, which ...

On 17th June, 2018, 10pm local time, an airstrike from an unidentified aircraft struck the village of Harri, southeast of the town of Albu Kamal in Deir ez-Zour Province. The strike hit positions where the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies were stationed, which included Iran’s Islamic Revolut...