Middle Orient

Ankara’s quest to restore ties with Damascus has left its Syrian rebel allies confused as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the jihadi group controlling Idlib, seeks to raise its profile and lure the disenchanted to its ranks. As the Turkish-Syrian dialogue advances and the prospect of Ankara pulling the plug on its …

Three days of protests followed a demonstration in Stockholm as President Erdogan says Sweden lost Turkey’s support for its NATO accession Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Swedish authorities Monday over protests in Sweden. Turkish reactions to protests in Stockholm — in particular the burning of a Quran …

“Terrorism is when the United States implants a dictatorial regime somewhere, relying on bayonets and using terror against its own people.” Former CIA officer F. Agee. Intervention in the internal affairs of foreign states became a major direction of U.S. foreign policy soon after the end of World War II. …

In the last few days, Damascus put forward conditions for continuing talks with Ankara, according to Asharq al-Awsat. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed developments in Syria in a phone call on Monday. Turkish and Iranian media reported that Iran’s top diplomat, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, might …

Syrians are move to camps described as “large prisons” in southern Turkey, where they are persuaded to return to Syria, according to Syria TV. The pace of deportation of Syrian refugees from Turkey to northern Syria has increased during the past year, and the selection of deportees was semi-random. Most …

Syria said that the Syrian Army repulsed on Wednesday a terrorist attack in the southern countryside of Idleb, according to Tishreen. The Ministry of Defense said that units of the Syrian Army repulsed on Wednesday a terrorist attack in the southern countryside of Idleb. “Our brave armed forces on Wednesday …

Local networks reported that the assassination of Amer al-Nassar took place on Sunday, according to Enab Baladi. Amer al-Nassar, nicknamed “The Colonel,” a militia commander in Daraa, was killed by direct fire while he was in a house in the city of al-Hara, northwest of Daraa. Local networks reported that …

Rumors about the arrest of figures from the Qaterji family are the result of rivalry among warlords, according to Enab Baladi. The rumors of the detention of the heads of the Qaterji family and the seizure of their companies have not been a secret in the past months in anticipation …

The Turkish-Syrian rapprochement is back on the surface after the meeting between Turkey’s Foreign Minister Cavusoglu and Secretary of State Blinken in Washington. On the other hand, the military threats have come back, and the Kurds in northeast Syria are still concerned about that. Syria, in the meanwhile, is angry …

It’s taken until Netanyahu’s new far-right government for some to acknowledge Israel’s crimes against Palestinians, but these violations of international law have long existed. Rami Khouri explains what must shift to challenge the current trajectory Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing Israeli government has quickly launched policies that take Zionism …