by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 14, 2017 | Middle East
Syrian ISIS members in Raqqa have started to leave the northern city in recent days, said a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The removal of foreign ISIS fighters is being prepared. “All Syrian fighters from the ISIS group left Raqa over the past five...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 27, 2017 | Middle East
London, Geneva, Moscow- The “Syrian National Coalition” asked on Wednesday that the UN Security Council lists the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (YPD) and its US-backed military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG) as terrorist organizations. “There is a public...
by Noah Bonsey | Jul 19, 2017 | Features
Noah Bonsey, a senior analyst for Syria at the International Crisis Group, visits the northeast of the country to meet a Syrian Kurdish organization that has made the region relatively secure, yet knows that it still has far to go in its struggle – particularly for...
by Saeed Abdelrazek, Paula Astih | Jun 29, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara, Beirut- The US chief envoy to the anti-ISIS group coalition has visited Syria, where he met the local council set to take over the rule of Raqqa once the terrorist force is defeated. Brett McGurk told members of Raqqa Civil Council that it has Washington’s...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | Jun 4, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara – Ankara officially revealed for the first time some details of its proposals to liberate Syria’s Raqqa city from ISIS. The plan relies on Arab forces instead of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said during a...
