News Syria Politics: I’m one of hundreds of archaeologists exiled from Syria who’s mourning what the war is costing us
Syria sits within what’s known as the cradle ... fighting groups realized they could use these sites as political pawns. While the Russian Orchestra performed at the ancient amphitheater after ...
News Syria Politics: Syria's Next Big Export: Illegal Pills
Syrian-made Captagon pills, known locally as Abu Hilalain ... a lecturer at Oxford University and expert on Middle East drug politics. “And with shrinking sources of [government] revenue, all the more ...
News Syria Politics: Kurds and Arabs in Northeast Syria: Power Struggle or Power Sharing?
Follow her on Twitter @AmyAustinHolmes Wladimir van Wilgenburg is an Erbil-based analyst of Kurdish politics, journalist at Kurdistan24, and coauthor of the book The Kurds of Northern Syria ...
News Syria Politics: US State Department welcomes news of ceasefire in northwest Syria
"The United States believes there can be no military solution to the Syrian conflict, and only a political solution can ensure a stable and secure future for all Syrians," the State Department said in ...
News Syria Politics: American captured in Syria charged with joining ISIS
Kuzu told agents that he also traveled to Mosul, Iraq, and received weapons and fighting training from ISIS instructors, but then crossed back into Syria where he was provided an AK-47 and was ...
News Syria Politics: U.S. Syria envoy 'cannot confirm' latest claim of chemical weapons in Syria
With rebel and jihadi forces largely reduced to an enclave in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, Mr. Jeffrey said that the U.S. and its allies have spoken with Russia about ways to establish a ...
News Syria Politics: Trump, ignore war hawks and end US role in Syria
While they run the gambit from suspending the U.S. troop withdrawal in northeastern Syria to mounting even more economic and political pressure on the Assad regime, the report in general was a ...
News Syria Politics: Syrian Kurds Accuse Putin of Failing Them as U.S. Role Fades
“When they came into Syria, we were expecting them to put some pressure on the regime to accept a political solution.” An alliance with the U.S. to defeat Islamic State left the Kurds in northeastern ...
News Syria Politics: US warns Assad against using chemical weapons as fighting escalates in Syria
As new fighting in Syria's last opposition-held province intensifies ... who said Moscow knows they need a political solution to rid themselves of the costly conflict and an ally that most ...
