Iran and its proxies and allies — from Syria to Lebanon to Gaza — have taken a beating in military engagements this year.
Bel Trew speaks to commanders of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group that led the charge to topple Bashar ...
The recent shift in geopolitical events against Iran and its proxies provides ... the entire political-military structure unraveled. There was no last stand in Damascus. Nor was there a dogged ...
There is fertile ground for cooperation to revive war-torn Syria but international sanctions, Israel in the south, terrorist ...
Now, they are poised to reveal their new military structure ... Assad’s government crippling rebel forces for more than a decade with the support of Iranian and Russian forces.
Corruption, underpaid soldiers, poor morale and dependence on Iran and Russia led to desertions and military collapse as rebel advance stormed through Syria without much of a fight ...
Crucially, much of the Syrian military's operational command structure was run by Iranian ... he would dissolve Syria’s security forces. Iran’s mission to the United Nations, the Iraqi ...
By the time Iranian military advisers and allied forces withdrew in the face of ... was “logical,” having seen “the collapse of a structure that had been in place for a long time, and ...