ANALYSIS: Harbingers of Coming Israeli Military Action Against Iran: Yochanan Visser, Israel Today, Feb. 26, 2023
Syria’s Civil War: The Descent into Horror: Zachary Laub, Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 14, 2023
Syria: The War Has Not Ended: Amir Taheri, Gatestone Institute, Feb. 12, 2023
Syria’s Isolation Hinders Earthquake Relief Effort: Vivian Salama and Stephen Kalin, WSJ, Feb. 8, 2023
Exclusive: Iran Keeps Building Air Defense Network in Syria, Israel Keeps Bombing It: Tom O’Connor, Newsweek, Jan. 10, 2023 — Iran has pursued the establishment of a comprehensive aerial defense network in Syria by sending equipment and personnel to the war-ravaged Arab nation in a project Israel has sought to thwart through repeated airstrikes, an intelligence source from a nation allied with the United States told Newsweek.
Exclusive: Rocket strike in Damascus Hit Iranian Military Experts, Sources Say: Laila Bassam and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters, Feb. 22, 2023 — A rocket attack in Damascus on Sunday that Syria blamed on Israel hit an installation where Iranian officials were meeting to advance programmes to develop drone or missile capabilities of Tehran’s allies in Syria, sources told Reuters.
Four U.S. Troops Wounded in Raid That Killed Islamic State Official: Reuters, Feb. 17, 2023 — Four U.S. troops were wounded during a helicopter raid that killed an Islamic State group leader in northeast Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday.
The Syrian Civil War Twelve Years On: Can There Be a Constructive Role for Greece?: Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Loukas I. Papavasileiou, Eliamep, Feb. 17, 2023 — Since its independence in 1946, the Syrian Arab Republic (hereafter referred to as Syria) has been a Sunni Arab majority nation with considerable ethnic and religious heterogeneity.