Tag: Syria

ISTANBUL—In March, days before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a line stretched for a block in Aksaray, a neighborhood that has been dubbed “Little Syria” for ...

One year ago, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was welcomed back into the Arab League with considerable fanfare, walking the purple carpet as he joined the summit being held in Jeddah, ...

Authoritarian states’ traditional approach to conflict outside their borders is to choose sides—supplying political-diplomatic support and military muscle to their allies—or to freeze the conflict while keeping a hand in ...

Kurdish citizens protested across Turkey after a court sentenced Selahattin Demirtas, former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and two-time presidential candidate, to 42 years in prison. Demirtas, ...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” NBC News Foreign Correspondent Matt Bradley stated that the explosions in Iran “could be a deeply, deeply destabilizing move by the Israelis, and ...

A direct attack on Israel from Iran is expected imminently, according to a report.  The attack could come within the next 24 to 48 hours and target southern or northern ...

Radio Farda on Friday quoted sources affiliated with Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon that have been holding “secret strategy sessions” with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad ...

An Israeli airstrike on an Iranian consulate building in Syria killed a top Iranian commander on Monday, in a sharp escalation of the ongoing shadow war between Israel and Iran ...