Ola Rifai Jul 12, 2017 Euphrates Wrath, the military campaign against ISIS in Raqqa, is accelerating and seems to have reached a closing point. Although this might take a few weeks or even months, the defeat of ISIS is…
Will Todman Jul 19, 2017 The turn of the diplomatic tide in Syria now seems irreversible. “During this round, the opposition never once demanded the immediate resignation of President Bashar al-Assad and the legitimate…
Will Todman Jun 14, 2017 As President Trump prepared to deliver the speech in Saudi Arabia that would blame Iran for “so much instability in the region,” he may not have fully appreciated the danger Iran’s proxies…
Ola Rifai Jun 21, 2017 After some 30 years of hard-line policies and vows to “eliminate the Jewish State” Palestinian militant group Hamas softens its stances saying that it would support the establishment of a…
Alasdair Gordon Gibson Jun 28, 2017 Here is the latest statement to the Security Council from the UNSG regarding humanitarian access in Syria. Here is the link to the latest ACAPS update on Syria Here is a report…
Ola Rifai Apr 4, 2017 Earlier last week, dozens of the government green buses pulled out of al-Waer neighborhood in central Homs carrying 2000 people; 300 of them were fighters; the buses’ final destination was…
Ola Rifai Feb 23, 2017 Paradoxically, all parties engaged in the Syrian war do not miss an opportunity to stress their determination for a political solution to end the almost 6 year-old conflict. Alas, these…
Ola Rifai Dec 11, 2016 Today marks the third week in the Russian and Syrian Regime onslaught to control eastern Aleppo. After 15 days of continuous bombardments and, nearly, a year of besieging of some 250,000…
Ola Rifai Sep 14, 2016 On August 24th Turkey, backed by American jets and its NATO allies, sent tanks and especial forces into Syria with the main aim of driving away ISIS off her southern borders, as Turkish…
Ola Rifai Aug 4, 2016 Abo Mohammed al-Joulani, the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) declared in an unprecedented video statement last week the detachment of his group from al-Qaeda, and revealed that JN would now be…