Special to WorldTribune.com Iran and Turkey, who support opposing sides in the Syrian civil war, negotiated a 48-hour ceasefire on Aug. 12 after a month of behind-the-scenes negotiations. The ceasefire stopped fighting between Syrian insurgents, backed by Turkey, and Syria’s military and Hizbullah, supported by Iran. The rebel-held town of Zabadani and a pair of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Christianity may be on the verge of vanishing from the region of its birth. According to a report in Christianity Today, Christians are targeted for the worst religious persecution in the Middle East in over one thousand years. Christians are facing relentless persecution on several fronts, including the ongoing civil war in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com In a move seen as retribution for recent defeats at the hands of Kurdish fighters, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) massacred 146 civilians in and around the Syria city of Kobane. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 120 civilians were killed in a 24-hour period that began on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com As Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) advanced on Aleppo, Syrian forces cleared the way with air strikes, messages posted to the U.S. Embassy in Syria’s Twitter feed said on June 1. “Reports indicate that the regime is making air strikes in support of ISIL’s advance on Aleppo, aiding extremists against […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Since capturing the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has executed more than 400 people, mostly women and children, according to reports. “The terrorists have killed more than 400 people … and mutilated their bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government and did […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States, despite concern from NATO allies, has decided to play down discrepancies in Syria’s chemical weapons program. Assistant Defense Secretary Andrew Weber said the Pentagon has determined that the regime of President Bashar Assad has surrendered virtually all of its CW stockpile and that any discrepancies in Syria’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Newly-elected Turkish President Reçep Tayyip Erdogan had, by Oct. 7, carefully re-started Turkey’s war inside Syria, to remove the government of President Bashar Assad, and had begun to draw the “old alliance” of the U.S. Obama White House, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia back into the Syrian war. President […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has dealt the regime of President Bashar Assad its biggest defeat since the Sunni revolt in 2011, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy said ISIL has captured the Raqqa province and would soon take over the neighboring province of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has captured the last military base in a northern Syrian province. ISIL has seized the Syrian Air Force base at Tabqa in a battle in which more than 500 soldiers and fighters were killed. Tabqa was the last military base in the Raqqa province […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Syria’s rebel movement has warned of a collapse amid the advance of the military and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Western-backed opposition has urged the United States and other allies to stop the ISIL advance toward the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The opposition, which oversees the […]