19/12/2014

The bodies of more than 230 people believed to have been killed by Islamic State (IS) have been found in a mass grave in eastern Syria, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they were thought to be members of a tribe…

The Daily Star   BEIRUT: More than 120,000 fighters supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad have been killed in the country’s civil war since it began in 2011, an anti-regime group monitoring the war said Wednesday. In total,…

BEIRUT -- Al Qaeda-linked and other Islamic fighters captured two key Syrian army bases on Monday in the northwestern province of Idlib after two days of intense battles with government troops that killed dozens on both sides, activists…

By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Around 100 Syrian soldiers and 80 Islamist fighters were killed during a two-day battle in which insurgents captured the Wadi al-Deif military base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring…

Aleppo Province: Information reported that the regime forces supported by NDF, al Quds al Filastini Brigade, Hezbollah and Shia fighters from Iran and Afghanistan could advance in Handarat Camp and take control over an area in the camp…

  Al- Raqqa Province: Reliable sources reported to SOHR that IS executed a Kurdish man from a village in the western countryside of Ayn al- Arab Kobani after they arrested him for 4 days accusing him of “blasphemy”.   A man from…

  Reliable sources informed SOHR that U.S. and Arab allies warplanes carried out 5 strikes on IS positions in Botan area in the city of Ayn al- Arab Kobani, while IS militants have launched 16 shells on areas in the city.   The…