On Thursday, Gibraltar detained an oil tanker headed to Syria and suspected of attempting to deliver its oil cargo despite EU sanctions. The British territorial government announced its detention. The Gibraltar authorities detained the Grace 1 vessel in the early hours of Thursday. Gibraltar police and customs agencies, aided by

There are gaps of reason between the west perception of its interests and the clash freedom for the Syrian people might provoke to handicap those interests. Today, the west has abandoned the idea of regime change in Syria. Assad, with all his faults, is left to terrorize his people while

The Assad regime killed one Turkish soldier and wounded three others on Thursday when it shelled their observation post in Syria’s Idlib region. Assad is dragging Turkey into his war to break the Turkish-Russian alliance he deems dangerous to his very own existence. A statement from the ministry of defense

Thousands of people flocked to the funeral on Sunday where the Syrian Revolution buried an iconic football player representing its endurance. Abdelbasset al-Sarout, 27, died on Saturday from wounds he sustained in northwest Syria, where an army offensive has pounded the last major rebel bastion for weeks. Once a well-known

On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Russia to stop bombing Idlib province. It came on the heels of the Kremlin statement that signaled Moscow would continue to back the Assad offensive. Trump wrote in a Twitter post: Hearing word that Russia, Syria and, to a lesser extent, Iran, are

On Sunday, Israel struck Assad assets across the Golan heights a day after rockets were fired by a Syrian army post. According to Syria’s state media, the attack killed three soldiers. Syrian television reported big explosions near Damascus before dawn. This is the second such flare-up in a week. Last