Bombardments by the Assad regime have led millions of Syrians to flee their home country (Photo: Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail) Turkey cannot handle “another refugee wave” from Syria, the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Sunday (22 December). Talking at an award ceremony in Istanbul, he said more than 80,000 people had fled the Syrian city…
The Israeli Air Force recently destroyed an IRGC HQ. Key point: Israel is stepping up its attacks on Iran in Syria. On November 19, four unguided artillery rockets arced out from Syrian territory into Israeli airspace in northern Galilee in the Golan Heights. These were detected and promptly destroyed by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system. What…
KEY POINTS In 2010, before conflict erupted, Syrian wells produced around 385,000 barrels per day, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy. That amounted to just 0.5 percent of global production — around what North Dakota produced that year. Today the U.S. military and Kurdish-led forces are the ones controlling the area and…
Former senior Air Force officer warns that while Israel’s foes have no interest in war, they may try taking advantage of government-less Israel. Hezbollah fighter walk near a military tank in Western Qalamoun, Syria August 23, 2017. –(photo credit: REUTERS) A war against Iran and Hezbollah will see Israel pounded by over a thousand rockets…
A volunteer helps a young boy following a sea rescue operation near the Greek island of Lesbos on Nov. 27. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES In 2015, at the start of the wave of migrants who hit European shores over the next few years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that migration and asylum would “preoccupy Europe much,…
Members of the so-called civil defense group White Helmets) purportedly check the vitals of a boy recovered from under the rubble of a building following an airstrike in the town of Maaret al-Naasan in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib on November 24, 2019. (Photo by AFP) White Helmets involved in organ trafficking in Syria: Study…
More and more foreigners are suspected of ties with organized crime in Germany, authorities told public broadcaster ARD. Newly arrived immigrants often act as competition to established Arab-Lebanese clans. Newcomers from Syria, Iraq and other countries are changing the structure of organized crime in Germany, federal police representatives told the public broadcaster ARD in a…
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused Iran of planning attacks against the Jewish state and said everything possible would be done to prevent them. The premier, who was indicted on corruption charges on Thursday and is seen to be battling for his political life, made his remarks on a visit…
Around 10,000 Daesh detainees and their families in nearby camps in northeastern Syria present a big security risk, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, even though the US-allied Syrian Kurdish militia was fully capable of keeping them secure, reports Reuters. “It’s not a particularly secure situation,” the official told reporters in a conference call….
The European Union must continue protecting Syrian refugees within Turkey, but should also take further responsibility and resettle more of them, Human Rights Watch associate director Gerry Simpson wrote in an op-ed published by the EU Observer on Wednesday. More effort from the EU to safeguard the refugees is essential now because they face the danger of…