29/01/2015

Reef Dimashq province: A surface to surface missile fell on Daraya, amid clashes between regime forces and Islamic battalions in the city, no reports of losses. Damascus province: Clashes took place between regime forces and Islamic…

BEIRUT — The Islamic State's offensive against Kobani, Syria, began quietly, almost unnoticed in the international press, in July of last year. The group's fighters had just swept through large parts of northwestern Iraq, sending the…

BEIRUT: ISIS executed a man suspected of being gay in Tal Abyad city, in the northeast Syrian province of Hassakeh, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported Wednesday. Fighters threw him off the top of a building, and when he did not…

A man was held down and beheaded for “insulting Allah” in the middle of a Syrian town by Isis fighters as he screamed for help from the silent crowd. Footage reportedly taken on Monday in the town of Al-Shadadi is the terror…

Russia has urged both the Syrian government and opposition to reconsider their positions toward the resolution of the country’s crisis. Both the opposition and the Syrian government should be ready to make concessions, Russia’s Foreign…

By Ramzy Baroud Whenever the word ‘refugee’ is uttered, I think of my mother. When Zionist militias began their systematic onslaught and ‘cleansing’ of the Palestinian Arab population of historic Palestine in 1948, she, along…

(Reuters) - Syria said on Wednesday it has approved a United Nations plan to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in the war-torn country this year, but warned the only way to the end the crisis was to help Damascus fight…

Jordan’s government spokesperson said on Wednesday his country was willing to hand over an Iraqi would-be-suicide bomber if a Jordanian pilot captured by ISIS was released. “Jordan is ready to release prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi if the…

Radical Lebanese Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Assir may soon become an “emir” for the ISIS’s branch in Lebanon, local newspaper Al-Joumhouria reported on Wednesday, citing security sources. The newspaper said ISIS militants had begun planning…

Hama province: Helicopters dropped 10 explosive barrels on al-Latamina. Warplanes raided Jroh village east of Hama , regime forces bombarded Qaston area in al-Ghab valley, no reports of losses. Aleppo province: Clashes took place between…