Subject: Security and Defense

Arab tribal fighters continue to wage a low-intensity insurgency against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in north-east Syria, regularly striking ...

In response to the outbreak of violence in Israel, Gaza and southern Lebanon since 7th October, several Iranian-backed militias in ...

Following an unclaimed drone attack that killed as many as 100 regime troops and civilians at the Homs Military College ...

A sharp increase in Iranian-backed militia activity is destabilizing security conditions in north-east Syria, with regions along the Syrian-Iraqi border ...

Hostilities broke out again between Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) in late September, with ...

North-east Syria has been rattled in recent weeks by two separate destabilizing armed conflicts. The first concerns the ongoing fight ...

Regime forces continue to use a dual strategy of incentive and coercion to manage the evolving protest movement in southern ...

Although far smaller than protests currently sweeping neighboring Suwayda, anti-regime demonstrations have continued in Daraa on an almost daily basis ...

While armed clashes between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and an alliance of tribal groups continues across rural Deir Ezzor, ...

This reporting period covers the month of July.In mid-July, Brigadier-General Manaf Tlass, defector Syrian army officer and former regime insider, ...