11/10/2014

SURUC, Turkey: Kurdish militia in Kobane came under renewed assault by the Islamic State group on Monday (Oct 6), as 20 militants were reported killed after entering the key Syrian town for the first time. IS militants were trying…

BEIRUT (AFP) -- At least 25 people, including four children, were killed Thursday in multiple Syrian government air strikes on a town outside Damascus, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths came in…

ISIS made new gains in Kobani Friday, taking control of the Kurdish HQ and the security quarter, which accounts for 40 percent of the city, activists from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. This was a…

The UN special envoy to Syria has warned that up to 700 people, mainly elderly, are still trapped in the Syrian border town of Kobane. Staffan de Mistura also urged Turkey to allow in volunteers to Syria to defend the town from Islamic…

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - More than 400 people have died during the 20 days of clashes between the Kurdish fighters and the Islamic State (IS) militants in the Syrian town of Kobani on the border with Turkey, the Syrian…

The Islamic State (IS) fighters have seized some 40 percent of Kobani as US-led airstrikes have failed to stop the extremist group from transporting military equipment to the city, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported…

At least 30 people were killed in two suicide attacks on two checkpoints run by Kurdish fighters in Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The attacks targeted checkpoints run by…

Islamic State forces have made new gains in Kobani, now controlling about 40 percent of the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border and might well capture it, Deputy US National Security Adviser Tony Blinken has said. “I don't know…

Reliable resources reported to SOHR that some IS militants tried to advance yesterday night towards the Freedom Square or what is unkown by al Expres Square located in the center of the city of Kobani, where IS…

For Western critics of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Britain-basedSyrian Observatory for Human Rights is the quintessential resource for documenting his regime’s mass atrocities. But as the United States undertakes direct…