Syrian opposition fighters ride in a truck in Talhiya, Idlib countryside, Syria, Friday, November 29, 2024. (AP) Eight years ago, Russian airstrikes helped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces push rebels out of Aleppo. This was a significant event in the Syrian civil war, which had mostly been in a deadlock since 2020. Last week, however,…
Government forces on Sunday lost control of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, for the first time since the conflict began in 2011, according to a war monitor. The Islamist-dominated rebel alliance, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a lightning assault that dealt a severe blow to President Bashar al-Assad‘s Russian- and Iranian-backed regime.The…
Military drones have revolutionsed the modern conflicts between the countries in the recent decades and have become indispensable tools in the global conflicts. These drones have significantly altered the dynamics of the battlefield from the Nagorno-Karabakh war, Syrian Civil war to Russia-Ukraine tensions. Drones become an integral part to military operations where these countries are…
In the 1960s, Israel and Iran, two nations that are currently adversaries, once cooperated against a common enemy. At that time, Iraq posed a threat to both countries for different reasons. Israel was engaged in a broader struggle with hostile Arab regimes, while Iran, under the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, viewed Iraq as…
