US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed deep concern on Wednesday (July 16) over escalating violence in southern Syria, following a second consecutive day of Israeli airstrikes targeting Syrian government forces near the Israeli frontier. “We’re very concerned about it,” Rubio told reporters in Washington. “We want it to stop. We’re talking to both sides,…
Last Updated:December 23, 2024, 14:18 IST China, which has made some solid investments in Syria in order to strengthen its position in the Middle East, now seems battered. Beijing will have to reevaluate its support to Iran and Russia in the region As far as the United States and European Union are concerned, they are…
In the final, chaotic hours before rebel forces stormed Damascus and ended Bashar al-Assad‘s iron-fisted rule, the Syrian president had already fled the country. His departure, shrouded in secrecy, marked the abrupt collapse of his 24-year regime and his family’s 50-year hold over Syria. As the clock ticked towards Sunday morning, Assad had already abandoned…
US secretary of state Antony Blinken confirmed on Saturday that American officials have been in direct communication with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Syrian rebel group designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the US since 2018.“We’ve been in contact with HTS and with other parties,” Blinken told reporters. HTS recently led a coalition of…
New Delhi: Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and family have landed in Moscow and have been granted asylum, Russia state media reported today, hours after Islamist-led rebels took control of his country. “Assad and members of his family have arrived in Moscow,” a Kremlin source told the TASS and Ria Novosti news agencies. “Russia granted…
Government forces on Sunday lost control of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, for the first time since the conflict began in 2011, according to a war monitor. The Islamist-dominated rebel alliance, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a lightning assault that dealt a severe blow to President Bashar al-Assad‘s Russian- and Iranian-backed regime.The…
