(Representative image/ Reuters) In response to Israel’s ongoing military advancements in the Golan ... ties with Russia and Iran, both of which have significant influence in Syria.

It was able to turn the tide in 2015 with the help of Russia’s intervention. By 2018 the regime had returned to the Golan area and removed Syrian rebels from southern Syria. Let’s try to ...

The situation in the Golan ... during Syria’s 1971 pact with the Soviet Union, and the nearby Hmeimim airbase, which has been operational since 2015. Both bases, located in Latakia on Syria’s ...

An Israeli military vehicle rides on the Golan Heights side ... s government, Iran, Russia and the US, could become another tool in Israel’s strategy towards Syria. This potential partnership ...

or even Russia on its own; and keep in place the formal and informal arrangements that have maintained peace between Israel and Syria for decades. Handing the reins of oil production over to Damascus ...

The new leader of the Syrian government, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, has publicly praised Vladimir Putin's influence, calling Russia a strategic ally and emphasising Syria's shared interests with Moscow.

The country’s national carrier, Turkish Airlines, will resume flights to Syria on January 23rd. Map: The Economist As ... new settlements in the occupied Golan Heights. Calls from Israel ...

Ankara is staking its claim as the indispensable mediator—not just between Damascus and its neighbors but also between global powers like the US and Russia, whose competing stakes in Syria are ...

as Russia had propped up the Assad regime. We took a detour on our return to Israel to see, up close, the new several-meter-deep trenches that the army is plowing along the border with Syria (a ...

Musa reportedly threatened action against Iranian arms transfers after eight airplanes — which Musa identified by tail number — had landed at Syria’s Russia-run Khmeimim air base from Iran ...

leaving Russia scrambling to withdraw troops and military equipment from bases in Syria it had used to project power abroad. And on Christmas Day, an Azerbaijan Airlines jet carrying 67 passengers ...