16/01/2015

Rome (AFP) - Italy on Friday brushed aside reports it had paid off Al-Qaeda to secure the release of two Italian aid workers abducted in northern Syria last summer.   Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni told parliament that claims that a…

The US Department of Defense is to send 400 troops and hundreds of support staff to train moderate rebels against Islamic State (IS) in Syria. It is not yet clear where the troops will be drawn from or where they will be based, though…

A new Western intelligenceassessment points to efforts by the Syrian government to renew its operations in an underground and clandestine facility, close to Qusayr near the border of Lebanon, in order to produce nuclear weapons. Citing the…

Trusted sources reported to SOHR that thousands of civilians including women and children demonstarted in al-Mashehad, Salah al-Din and al-Sekkari in Aleppo, Homs countryside, Der-Ezor, Damascus southern countryside, western…

  Idlib Province: The warplanes carried out some raids on areas in the city of Bennesh and towns of Kafar Takharim and Armanaz with no information about casualties so far. The helicopters dropped 2 barrel bombs on the outskirts of the…

Trusted sources reported to SOHR that the violent clashes continue in Kobane between ISIS and YPG, after an attack by ISIS started on Aleppo-Kobane road passing through Mashta Nour and Rash library into the governmental square, accompanied…

  Daraa Provinc: The regime forces opened fire on the southern region of the town of Otman and areas in the town of al- Hrak with no information about victims   A fighter from the Islamic battalions died in clashes with the regime…

  Deir Ezzor Province: The warplanes carried out a raid on the town of al- Bo Omar leading to injure a girl. They also carried out 6 raids on the city of Mo Hasan in the east of Deir Ezzor and a raid on an area in the city of al- Bokamal…

Aleppo Province: Reliable sources informed SOHR that fighters stormed yesterday night a post of rebel battalion in the neighborhood of Qadi Askar in the Old Aleppo, where violent clashes took place after a wrangle because the commander of…

  Rif Dimashq Province: The regime forces bombarded by mortar shells areas in the city of Doma in the Eastern Ghota killing 4 people at least while 13 others were wounded, the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people…