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Baku, Azerbaijan– Israel and Turkey are holding a new round of talks on Thursday in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to discuss regional security issues related to Syria, according to Israeli and Turkish sources. The meeting is being mediated by Azerbaijani...

Qamishli, northeastern Syria – A delegation affiliated with the Vatican paid a visit on Sunday to the foreign relations office of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), a Kurdish-led governing body that controls a large swath of...

The entrenched connection between the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas has brought Jordan face-to-face with a multi-layered confrontation, one entangled in regional, international, and domestic complexities, all heightened by the ongoing crisis in Gaza and its spillover effects. In a recent...

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning the incidents of sectarian violence targeting the Unitarian Druze community residing south of Damascus.  In the statement, Paris called on all actors in Syria, both locally and regionally, to immediately...

The Jordanian Ministry of Interior has announced a set of new measures easing restrictions on the entry and exit of Syrian citizens, allowing them to travel to and from the Kingdom without the need for prior approval in several cases,...

Ankara – Turkey is currently preventing Syrian airlines from landing at its airports due to technical and legal restrictions, Middle East Eye reported on Friday, citing a Turkish transport ministry official. The official said that Syria’s current fleet does not...

Brussels – Germany has begun legal proceedings to revoke refugee protection from 734 Syrians who visited Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December, according to German newspaper Welt. Under German asylum law, refugees who voluntarily return to...

The United States is preparing to sign a $100 billion arms agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, according to six informed sources cited by Reuters on Friday. The report states that American defence giant Lockheed Martin will supply Saudi...

Erbil, Iraq– French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot met Wednesday with General Mazloum Abdi, commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and Ilham Ahmed, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council’s foreign relations office, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The meeting focused on...

For the second time, the American-led international coalition against ISIS has turned down a request from Syria’s Transitional Administration to join its ranks, reflecting, according to observers, deep international reservations about the interim government’s credibility and its ability to act...