Explainer: Iran in Syria Today
Key findings Assad is beholden to Iran but also strategically aligned with its ideology and objectives. Years after Iran started entrenching itself in Syria, the country is now undeniably an...
Read moreDetailsKey findings Assad is beholden to Iran but also strategically aligned with its ideology and objectives. Years after Iran started entrenching itself in Syria, the country is now undeniably an...
Read moreDetailsOn the night of 13th April, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched around 300 unmanned drones and ballistic missiles in an unprecedented, large-scale attack against Israel. Iranian officials claimed...
Read moreDetailsA significant aerial attack, suspected to be Israeli, targeted an array of key Iranian-linked sites across north-east Syria in late March. Taking place days before major Israeli strikes on Iranian-linked...
Read moreDetailsIn late March, a massive three-pronged Israeli aerial attack struck Iranian militia-linked sites in and around the city of Aleppo, killing at least 44 individuals—including 36 regime troops and seven...
Read moreDetailsThe conflict between Iranian-backed militias and Israeli forces in south-west Syria has slowed in recent weeks. Just three missile launches by militias targeting the border strip with the occupied Golan...
Read moreDetailsAt least seven senior Iranian commanders were killed in yesterday’s Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. The Israeli airstrikes completely destroyed the consulate building, located next to the...
Read moreDetailsThirteen years after the first anti-Assad protests broke out in Daraa in 2011, demonstrators across Syria commemorated the anniversary by calling for the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s expulsion from...
Read moreDetailsIn an almost unprecedented display of dissent against HTS, hundreds of protesters took to the streets for several days in Idlib city and other areas to condemn a longstanding security...
Read moreDetailsISIS attacks against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reached a new deadly peak in February. A security vacuum left by the SDF’s months-long conflict with Arab tribes in eastern Deir...
Read moreDetailsTensions in Suwayda are at an all-time high after a protester was killed by security forces during a protest in Suwayda city—the first casualty since the protest movement first broke...
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