New Offensive Aims at ISIS’ Heart

30 May 2016 English

Kurdish-led forces are attacking militant positions north of the Islamic State’s de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria. The Times correspondent Rukmini Callimachi explains how the fall of Raqqa could incite sectarian tensions.

Where is the Smooth Presidential Transition Vowed by Obama? He is Panic-Stricken

6 January 2017 English

Right after the stunning victory of Donald Trump back in November 2016, President Obama pledged a peaceful transition of power to the president-elect; however the latest decisions of the outgoing president look like he’s planting mines for his successor. Media sources attempt to understand what […]

Syria Suspends Aleppo Evacuation

17 December 2016 English

The Syrian government suspended the evacuation of civilians from eastern Aleppo Friday after blasts and gunfire were hard in parts of the city and both rebels and government forces accused the other of breaking the fragile cease-fire agreement. The Syrian government ordered trucks and buses […]

Assad in Person: Confident, Friendly, No Regrets

3 November 2016 English

DAMASCUS, Syria — The guns were silent atop Mount Qasioun and the lights on its slopes twinkled over Damascus as President Bashar al-Assad ofSyria welcomed a group of Western visitors into his French-Ottoman palace on Monday night, presenting himself as a man firmly in control […]