Syria

In an Alaan TV channel (UAE) report about European Jihadists fighting in Idlib, Syria, journalist Jenan Moussa said that they faced danger not only from the Syrian army, but from opposition factions who "want to get rid of the foreign Jihadists." However, one of the foreign fight...

On August 9, OTV aired a report on the Druze village of Rami, in south Syria, in the aftermath of an ISIS attack that left many dead. A wounded fighter showed the TV crew where the battle had taken place and said he had been hit by a sniper. A mother declared that she would shoot...

The Russian naval forces stationed at Tartus, Syria, conducted maneuvers on July 30 to mark Russian Naval Day, in the presence of Syrian and Russian commanders and Syrian government officials. General Hassan Hassan, Head of the Political Bureau in the Syrian Army, declared that "...

On July 28, Firqat Al-Ghuraba (the Foreigners' Brigade), a group of foreign fighters, mostly French-speaking, in Syria, aligned with Al-Qaeda, released a new video in French, presented as the first episode of a series titled "In the Skin of a Mujahid." The video shows the group's...

Al-Manar TV interviewed residents of the Al-Fuaa and Kafriya villages, near Idlib, Syria, after their evacuation to a displacement center in Aleppo. An armed young man saluted Hassan Nasrallah and Bashar Al-Assad and declared: "Allah willing, we shall return and liberate every in...

Syrian MP Khaled Abboud said that the Russians "do not have the Iranians and the Syrians in their pocket" and that they cannot speak on their behalf when they talk with the Israelis. Speaking on the Syrian Al-Ikhbariya TV on July 15, he also denied reports that the Iranian army h...

In a recent episode of the "Ask a Sister" Q&A Islamic show, a viewer in the West asked scholar Maseeha Saloojee whether she recommends making hijra to Syria and joining the Jihad in the current climate. Saloojee responded that because of all the different groups in Syria, "it...

Former ISIS member Nour Al-Din Al-Hatimi, a Moroccan who returned to his country after becoming disillusioned with the Jihad in Syria, explained the mindset of foreign ISIS recruits who traveled to Syria in order to establish the Caliphate. Interviewed by Egyptian-German scholar ...

A Russian instructor training militants near Idlib, Syria, was interviewed by OGN Media in a video released on social media networks on July 14. The instructor, who belongs to a "storming military unit" established in 2016 to help rebels in their fight against the Assad regime, s...

A Syrian army colonel, interviewed in south Syria where he was participating in the military campaign, said that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia were trying to divert them from their goal. "Our eyes are set on Palestine," he said. "Right now, we are fighting proxies. We are fighting th...

Introduction: Pending Fighter: "This is a message addressed to my dear siblings outside. I'm speaking to you from the ground of honor and I hope you listen to this call. This is a call of warning and good news. A warning to those who show affection to this life on earth and a ...

Jaafar Al-Husseini, spokesman for the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, said that "we have been on Syrian soil since 2013, in coordination with the Syrian Arab Army" and that "we have engaged in battle and have had dozens of martyrs." Interviewed on Mayadeen TV on June 19, Al-Husseini fu...

In a Friday sermon delivered at the Lala Pasha Mosque in Damascus on June 22, Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Malla said that the World Cup was part of a plot, outlined in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to distract the Arabs and the Muslims from the defiling of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and t...

Deputy President Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences Colonel Konstantin Sivkov said that the "stubbornness" of the U.S. Congress is sending Turkey into the arms of Russia. "Unfortunately – or rather, fortunately – the American political leadership lacks the brains t...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said that the term "advisors" is used in a broad and multi-faceted sense and that "when this military formation goes into battle, the advisor transforms into a fighter." He said that "there are definitely Iranian advisors in Syria, and there are a...

In a recent TV interview, Osama Al-Mallouhi of the Syrian Rescue Committee repeated antisemitic remarks that he has made in the past. Claiming that "[Israel] exerts pressure on America, through the Zionist lobbies in the U.S. and in Europe, to keep Bashar Al-Assad [in power]," Al...

Iranian Middle East expert Dr. Masoud Asadollahi, a member of the Iranian delegation to the Astana talks, recently revealed Russian-Iranian discord with regard to the presence of Iranian and Hizbullah forces in Syria. Dr. Asadollahi talked about the recent statement by Putin's sp...

Canadian jihadi Abu Mansour Al-Muhajer appeared in a video released by the Syria-based pro-Al-Qaeda jihadi group Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), and recounted why he had decided to move to Syria after living most of his life in Canada. Speaking in English, Al-Muhajer said that the...

Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, said that Syria had achieved a "balance of terror" with Israel and the response to a future Israeli strike would be inside Israel proper. Berri, who was speaking on Russia Today TV on May 11, also said: "If a war breaks out, I don'...