Two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) were killed in an ambush set by ISIS in central Syria. ISIS ambushed a military convoy in al-Sukhnah area, east of Palmyra city in the eastern Homs countryside, killing IRGC military adviser Hassan Abdullahzadeh and his...

During Syrian government bombing campaigns, 930 healthcare workers have died, and a further 3,329 were arrested in the last ten years of civil war, according to the Violet Organisation. The most recent bombing of a hospital by the Syrian regime was on March 21 this year, when Atarib Hospital in...

For decades, Syria’s Republican Guard forces have been the last frontline of defence for the ruling Assad family in Damascus.  The Republican Guard forces, or the Presidential Guard, were founded in the early 1970s by Hafez al-Assad, as the first shield of his regime in...

he last time Syria held presidential elections, in 2014, there was no question over whether President Bashar al-Assad would win – but with opposition forces in control of the country’s cities, as well as the suburbs of Damascus, his future was still far from certain. Seven years later,...