Tag: Syria

On Saturday I was able to get a quick photo of the late older brother of Bashar, Bassel al-Assad riding in place without ambulation, without even a single twitch at the Al-Bassel Roundabout in Qamishlo, the last area before entering government-held Qamishlo Airport on Saturday. Not far from the...

Some of you may remember a number of months ago I published an interview with a journalist in Rojava, Kurdish controlled Syria, known as Woman Life Freedom (Telegram: https://t.me/womanlifefreedom , Instagram: https://instagram.com/woman_life_freedom?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== ). She, and the people she works with, were able to write a longform analysis of the...

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the commander-in-chief of the Russian Special Task Force Syria, Colonel Oleg Pechevisty has been killed in Syria. The incident reportedly occurred on 26 May 23. He reportedly was charged with leading the GRU support to Russian paratroopers and special forces...

After 12 years, Syria has officially been approved to rejoin the Arab League as relations continue to normalize with the Assad government. On Sunday, the 13 attending member states in Cairo voted unanimously in support of the decision, just days after a delegation met in Jordan to prepare a...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced during an interview with TRT Turk on Sunday that Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurshi was killed over the weekend in Aleppo, Syria, during an operation carried out by MIT (Turkish National Intelligence Organization). This would mark the third ISIS emir...

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed that senior Islamic State leader Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali was killed early Monday during a helicopter raid on the Syrian village of As Suwayda in the Jarabulus countryside. Two other “armed individuals” were confirmed to have been killed in the operation. “Extensive...