Rights groups deplore “hysterical and inappropriate language” framing crisis as an issue of security, rather than human rights.
Governments in the Balkans are beefing up borders and readying soldiers in the event of a new influx of migrants and refugees, with Serbia reportedly ready to seal its southern frontier with North Macedonia after Turkey abandoned a 2016 migration pact with the European Union.
The war in Syria has created tensions in Bulgaria’s Syrian community, one of the largest in Eastern Europe, and given some members a pretext to seek asylum elsewhere.
As protests swept Syria in 2011, Abu Kamal’s famous kebab restaurant in the heart of Sofia felt like an outpost of the revolution.
Israeli Army revealed on Sunday it destroyed 90% of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria and aborted the Lebanese Hezbollah entrenchment in Syria.
“Israel has in recent years succeeded in almost completely curbing Iran’s ability to transfer weapons to Syria,” The Jerusalem Post cited officials in the Israeli Army as saying.
A source familiar with the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria said the group is preparing for an election round likely to occur in December amid a rivalry between the old leadership of the elderly and the younger generation.
The source added in a statement to Syria TV that the main problem with the leadership of the group is that it believes that its project in the seventies and eighties of the last century, and its personalities, structure and previous working mechanisms worked with outside Syria can continue in the phase of the revolution and beyond.
Farid al-Qasim, the new commander of the Maghawir al-Thawra faction, has made several changes since he took over this position under the auspices of the “international coalition” forces. These modifications included renaming the faction as the Free Syrian Army, which raised question marks — especially as it coincides with the United States’ growing presence in Syria.
In remote villages across the Lebanese Bekaa region, Syrian refugees are packing their belongings and getting ready to return home. Starting Wednesday, and as part of Lebanon’s “voluntary return” plan, hundreds of refugees have returned to Syria.
Syrians Returning to Devastated Country, Escaping Economic Meltdown in Lebanon (Zaman al-Wasl)
Inspired by a psychic, the foreign mercenaries had the goal of establishing ‘a private military company for worldwide missions’
Two former German military officers have been sentenced by the Stuttgart Regional High Court to 18 and 14 months in prison for attempting to train a group of mercenaries to be sent to the war in Yemen.
Despite claiming its presence in Syria is solely to fight ISIS, US forces instead maintain regime change policies against Damascus and illegally loot the country’s oil
The Coordinator of Strategic Communications for Washington’s National Security Council, John Kirby, said on 28 October that the US has no plans to either ease the Caesar Act sanctions against Syria or to withdraw its illegally occupying forces from the country.
Officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Friday, 28 October, that its intelligence unit foiled a bomb attack in the southern city of Shiraz.
The bomb was discovered on Maali Abad Street in Shiraz, and successfully defused.
The Syrian army and locals in northeastern Syria often block the passage of the US troops as discontent about their control of the vast oil fields grows
US occupation forces operating in Syria looted a new batch of oil on 26 October from the country’s Jazira region, local media reported.