(Council on Foreign Relations)- Syria’s civil war has grown ever more complex in the nearly six years since protesters first challenged the government. President Bashar al-Assad aims to reassert control nationwide, while predominantly Sunni Arab opposition forces seek to wrest the state from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- situation on ground in Syria in increasingly complicating, amid the increase in the number of Iraqi Shiite militias supported by Iran in Syria, not to mention Commanders’ statement of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) about heading toward Aleppo after Mosul battle. ...

(The Guardian)- Who would want to be a woman in Aleppo? The female population of Syria’s second city find themselves threatened both by the murderous misogynists of Islamic State (Isis) and the Russian allies of the president, Bashar al-Assad, whose bombing raids mean that now even bad...

(Middle East Eye)- Two Syrian women were refused visas on Tuesday to visit the UK, where they were scheduled to speak about Syrian female activists who are working as doctors, journalists and rebel fighters in the war-torn country. The pair are among five Syrian activists who star in a new...