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Middle East
The rebels’ lightning offensive has seen them taking multiple major cities within two weeks, including the capital Damascus on Sunday morning as shown by footage circulating online.
Dec. 8
Top News
Russian forces in Syria have suffered one of their biggest setbacks in recent years.
Dec. 7
Syria
Major change in Syria as Assad’s forces and their Russian and Iranian backers forced to retreat.
Dec. 7
Iran
The current setbacks faced by Russian forces in the face of rebel advances in Syria could have an impact that spreads far beyond that long-beleaguered Middle Eastern country.
Dec. 7
War in Ukraine
Denys Davydov, one of YouTube’s most recognizable Ukraine experts, explains how Russia’s problems - at home, as well as abroad in Syria, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine - are compounding.
Dec. 5
HUR
Russian milbloggers are bemoaning the quantities of modern military kit left behind by Russian forces in Syria, the latest being a ‘state of the art’ air defense radar.
Dec. 5
Ukraine
The Kremlin claims that Ukrainian intelligence agencies of backing Syrian rebels as Kyiv denies involvement in the ongoing offensive by Islamist groups, testing nerves at the UN.
Dec. 4
HUR
Demoralized by the opposition’s successes and with rotations suspended, Russian troops in Syria are being reinforced with interpreters and mercenaries from the so-called “African Corps.”
Dec. 3
HUR
Russia flees Damascus, abandoning equipment while a special forces commander is heading to Moscow to explain the failures in Syria.
Dec. 2
Energy
Ukrainian military sources claim that whenever Moscow uses strategic bombers to launch missile strikes against them several missiles fail and end up falling on Russian territory.
Dec. 2
US
The call came after Syrian rebels and their Turkish-backed allies launched their biggest offensive in years, seizing control of Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo.
Dec. 2
HUR
Russian forces are suffering heavy losses in Syria, leading Moscow to replace General Sergey Kisel. Ukrainian intelligence reports hundreds of Russian troops missing after intense battles.
Dec. 1
War in Ukraine
The current push against Syrian government forces in Aleppo has been conducted by a disparate opposition groups whose only connection seems to be a hatred of the Assad regime and its Russian backers.
Dec. 1
Russia
Rebels launched a swift offensive against Iranian- and Russian-backed Syrian forces since Wednesday, coinciding with a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah.
Nov. 30
Israel
While Washington insists that Ukraine needs to respect Putin’s red lines to avoid escalation, Israel stomped all over them by blowing up the Kremlin’s largest overseas air base.
Oct. 3
Drones
Exclusive footage from Kyiv Post sources appears to show HUR special forces attacking a Russian base in Syria, near Aleppo, on Sept. 15, where Moscow was producing and testing strike UAVs.
Sep. 16
A representative from a Syrian rebel faction said it was in contact with Moscow and that Russia is not currently evacuating its air base, signaling potential future cooperation between the two.
Dec. 16