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Parading a drone in Iran. (Photo: Reuters)

Iran’s Guards Use Aerial Guided-Missile Attacks to Back Regime Troops in Syria

by Nazeer Rida | Sep 26, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut- Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard had single-handedly introduced a new weapon when taking up arms side by side by Syria’s regime against ISIS in the Badia region. Air-launched guided missile activity was registered–meanwhile, ISIS militiamen rebelled...

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Smoke rises from buildings in the area of Bughayliyah, on the northern outskirts of Deir ez-Zor on Sept. 13, as Syrian forces advance during their ongoing battle against ISIS.
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Washington’s Allies Control Syria’s Most Important Gas Field

by Nazeer Rida | Sep 24, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut- The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Deir Ezzor Military Council announced on Saturday that it seized the Conoco Gas Plant in the Deir Ezzor countryside after kicking out ISIS militants. Before the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, the...

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Turkish soldiers fire an upgraded M60 tank during fighting alongside members of the Free Syrian Army against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists near the northern Syrian village of Beraan, north of the embattled city of Aleppo, on October 24, 2016. / AFP / Nazeer al-Khatib (Photo credit should read NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkey Extends Mandate on Troop Deployment in Iraq, Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 23, 2017 | Middle East

Turkey’s parliament voted on Saturday to extend by a year a mandate authorising the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria, two days before a planned independence referendum in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region. Turkey said earlier it would take security,...

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A Russian TU-22M3 long-range strategic bomber dropping bombs in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)

Syria: Russian Missiles against Nusra Front in Idlib, Israeli Raids near Damascus

by Taha Abdul Wahed and Asharq Al Awsat | Sep 23, 2017 | Middle East

Moscow and Beirut – A submarine from the Russian Black Sea fleet launched Kalibr cruise missiles against al-Nusra Front positions in Idlib, Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday. The ministry said that the attack against terrorist targets came in...

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People inspect the damage at a site hit by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria September 29, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

Nusra Front Challenges Idlib Truce from Northern Hama

by Caroline Akoum and Taha Abdulwahid | Sep 20, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut, Moscow- Russian and Syrian regime warplanes launched on Tuesday a number of airstrikes on several areas in the provinces of Idlib and Hama, as a response to a previous attack waged by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham that includes Fatah al-Sham faction. Last week,...