In a move raising significant questions, the Tindouf camps, controlled by the Polisario Front under Algerian jurisdiction, recently welcomed Kurdish separatist activists advocating for an independent Kurdistan.

Interesting developments are taking place in north Africa as a result of the recent regime change in Syria. And these developments are intertwined with the Ukraine war. As has been reported, Russia is looking

Since Assad’s fall in the first week of December, Israel has destroyed a large proportion of Syria’s strategic stock of weapons so that they do not fall into the hands of Islamic State and other hostile forces. And Israel has unilaterally seized the Syrian side of Mount Hermon and the United Nations demilitarized zone adjacent to the Golan Heights.

Syria's new administration does not seek bloodshed with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the country's Kurdish population, de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday.

Russia has lost a naval base after Syria ended an investment contract with Moscow, asserting its authority over the Tartus port.

Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions haven't changed DAMASCUS, Syria -- Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax ...

Russia's Mediterranean foothold faces uncertainty, with Tartus’s future hanging in the balance and alternative bases in Libya and Algeria offering limited, politically fraught substitutes. The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has led to speculation over ...

QAMISHLI, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the first-ever return of detainees to Syrian areas ...

BAMAKO, Mali -- A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a coalition of separatist armed groups in Mali's predominately Tuareg north, said on the social media platform X that it freed Spanish citizen Gilbert Navarro.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front, or FLA, a coalition of separatist armed groups in Mali’s predominately Tuareg north, said on X that it freed Spanish citizen Gilbert Navarro.

A few weeks later, Mr al-Shaibani resurfaced in Damascus in the cabinet of Syria’s new interim government. On January 15th he made an official visit to Turkey, where he had lived for over a ...

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training raises concern among some Syrians Police trainers say this is to instil a sense of morality in recruits Bashar al-Assad's security forces had a ...