July 2014

Jihadists from the Islamic State group killed at least 50 Syrian soldiers in an ambush on Friday, summarily executing most of them after their capture, a monitoring group said. The assault in Raqa province, the jihadists' Euphrates valley…

The jihadist Islamic State group launched multiple attacks on government-held territory across northern and northeastern Syria on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the first time that…

AMMAN, July 24 (KUNA) -- At least 11 people, including three children and a woman, were killed and eight others wounded when a mortar shell fell on a district of Aleppo city, north Syria, on Thursday.The area is controlled by the…

(Reuters) - Militant group Islamic State seized control of the Sha'ar gas field east of the central Syrian city of Homs after an assault against government forces on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian…

BEIRUT: Syrian regime forces and allied groups have suffered more than 800 casualties in the last week, a leading anti-regime activist group said Wednesday, amid signs of a “significant” lack of manpower. The Britain-based Syrian…

Six children from the same family were killed in an airstrike on a village in Syria's northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday (July 22nd), AFP reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing local residents, said three boys and…

Syria has reportedly seen the deadliest 48-hour period of its three-year civil war. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says more than 700 people were killed on Thursday and Friday, more than those killed in the chemical…

BEIRUT: The Militants Islamic State is selling oil and liquid gas products extracted from fields under its control in Syria to Iraqi businessmen across the border, a monitoring group said Monday. IS has captured large swathes of territory…

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—More than 700 people were killed in Syria over the course of Thursday and Friday, in what activists say were the bloodiest 48 hours of fighting in the conflict to date. The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human…

Beirut: Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have entered northern Syria to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab, a monitor said Tuesday. “At least 800 Kurdish fighters crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to help their…