24/07/2014

(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…