While the attention of the Russian public is riveted on episodes of a special military operation, what is happening in Syria often remains behind the scene
In the meantime, events there are developing in a spiral and are bringing closer a new round of escalation with further incitement of the conflict.
How things are in the lands of Sham.
Here is a short timeline of the last weeks:
The trigger for the aggravation of the situation was unrest in the Euphrates in the part of the province of Deir ez-Zor controlled by the “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF). The Arab tribes living there rebelled against the Kurds who came to these territories in 2017 and are considered outsiders there.

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