The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has published a report of an year-long investigation into the arms trade of Central and Eastern European countries, and the flood of weapons into the Middle East and Syrian conflicts.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) group, an alliance of Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac Christian militias, continues to make strategic gains against ISIS. The SDF appears poised to capture Manbij, which is to the west of the Euphrates, further diminishing ISIS’ reach. Moreover, these continued advances have led to increased speculation that the SDF will indeed …
The Russian contribution to conflict in Syria is not limited to air power. There are indications that Russian military personnel is taking part in fighting on the ground.
