With the Iraqi Forces already in Eastern and Western Mosul neighborhoods , the YPG at the gates of Raqqa, and with the Fall of Al-Bab and Manbij , the Islamic State’s Caliphate is virtually collpasing everywhere. ISIS has been retreating ...
Deir ez-Zor is the largest city in Eastern Syria, and with the imminent fall of Raqqa and Mosul, it will probably become Islamic State’s next stronghold. The city had a pre-war population of 200,000 inhabitants, mostly Sunnis. Deir ez-Zor has been ...
2016 was the year of the unexpected. From the death of Castro, the Brexit, the terror attack in Nice to the Elections of Donald Trump it was a year rich of emotions and important in terms of World Events. Here ...
The capture of Aleppo will without a doubt mark the biggest victory for Bashar Al Assad and its allies and the end of the dream for the rebels. This is the greatest achievement of the regime since the civil war ...
Five squadrons of Russian Federations Police were sent in Syria. These Squadrons are mainly composed of Chechens policemen -Sunnis Muslims- that have been sent in Syria the 4th of December. Their mission is to “protect the civilians of Aleppo and ...
Much debate has taken place on the topic how the Islamic State should be militarily defeated, including various combinations of US, Russian, European, Turkish, Iranian and Arab powers. However, too little is being said on the political solution after the ...
Turkey’s careful and long-time prepared incursion into Northern Syria seemed to be a success in the first days. Indeed in less than five days , they managed to push back both the YPG and Daesh and capture Jarabulus and the ...
Whether a ploy to draw the United States into coordinating with its forces or an attempt to undercut a potentially threatening rebel group, Russia took a bold step in Syria a few days ago. Russian aircraft carried out a series ...
The Islamic State currently led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has taken some massive hits since its foundation. Its founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in 2006 and since then it has lost fourteen other leaders and senior personnel, including ...
Forecast France in 2016 will be characterized by President Francois Hollande’s attempts to cope with a country that is shifting politically to the right while leading a leftist administration. In pursuit of the right-wing vote, Hollande will take a hard ...