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Syria and Russia have reached an agreement over the future of two strategic Mediterranean coastal bases that ultimately ends their use a military outposts for Moscow, Syria's Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Russia was the top political and military ally of ousted President Bashar Assad between 2011 and 2024 when Syria…

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Russian Navy facility in Syria's coastal Tartous, Syria, December 14, 2024. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo — Umit Bektas Aug 9 (Reuters) - Syria and Russia reached a memorandum of understanding to settle the future of Russian bases at Tartous and Hmeimim following 18 months…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday said its forces struck the al-Tanf air base in southeastern Syria, in the first attack of its kind since the start of the U.S.-Iran war. The IRGC wrote in a statement carried by state-affiliated media that the strike targeted a U.S. command and…

The U.S. military struck infrastructure targets in Iran for the first time in this round of fighting overnight, while the regime widened its retaliatory strikes to U.S. targets in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday. Both sides have been gradually intensifying the exchange of fire after Iran resumed attacks on…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on July 17 they had attacked a US special operations command centre at al-Tanf in Syria in retaliation for the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr, state media reported. Reuters could not independently verify the claim, and there was no immediate comment from the Syrian government…

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the 2026 NATO Summit at the Bestepe Presidential Compound in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House. Lt. Col. (res.) Eyal Dror lives with his family in Kibbutz Dafna, a northern Israeli border…

A Kurdish medical student recounts her educational journey as an unregistered person in Syria. Following a January 2026 decree, they can now be granted citizenship...Read More

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN JULY 15, 2026 11:57 Updated: JULY 15, 2026 17:07 US President Donald Trump may be pressuring Israel to withdraw forces from several areas along the border with Syria, according to Axios. “President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call Thursday that Israel…

Jerusalem Post / Middle East Israel blocking regional stability by refusing to withdraw, Syria's Sharaa tells Trump - report According to the report, Sharaa had told Trump that "Israel refused to include the word 'withdrawal' in any agreement and halted negotiations when we raised the issue." Follow us on Google…

Nigerian troops on Tuesday, July 14, arrested a suspected Moroccan Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operative following a counter-terrorism operation in Borno State. The arrest followed a coordinated attack by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Cross Kauwa in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state...Read…