A document dated August 17, 2016, revealed details of an expanded security and military meeting held in the office of the then-Security Officer of the Republican Guard, Brigadier General Qais al-Farawi. The meeting aimed to develop a mechanism and operational plan for the siege of the towns...

"If I had lived one more day, I would have been dead," Ali Issa al-Sabsi, known as number 499, describes his harrowing experience in the National Defense Forces' detention centers in Syria. Al-Sabsi was working as a fuel tanker driver in Quneitra governorate when he was arrested with nine...

US President Donald Trump abruptly backed down Wednesday in his global trade war with a 90 day pause for most countries – but slapped even more levies against China in what has become a full-scale confrontation between the world’s two largest economies. “I have authorized a 90 day...

The second batch of Kurdish fighters affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) left the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods in Aleppo on Wednesday, heading east of the Euphrates River, under the supervision of the General Security Forces. Approximately 500 Kurdish People's...