08/02/2015

Reef Dimashq province: Regime forces bombarded areas in Alia farms near Duma and other areas in Daraya, Hamret, and Der Maker, no reports of losses. Clashes took place between regime forces and Islamic battalions after midnight between…

KURDISH fighters may be dancing and shouting with joy in the deserted streets of war-torn Kobani, but a Middle East expert has warned it is "too soon" to celebrate victory.     By AARON BROWN   It has been 11 days since Kurdish…

The US said it had no proof to support a claim from the Islamic State group that a coalition air strike killed an American woman it was holding hostage in Syria. The jihadists named the woman as Kayla Jean Mueller, saying she had been…

Jordan has vowed to “eliminate” the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as its war-planes joined coalition bombing raids of Isil territory for the third day in a row. As the Prince of Wales touched down in the Jordanian…

Source: AAP Coalition warplanes have pounded a stronghold of the Islamic State group in Syria amid uncertainty over the fate of a US hostage the jihadists claim was killed in an earlier raid. The United Arab Emirates,…

For a certain generation, images of desperate Syrian refugees crammed into overcrowded boats carrying their children in their arms may seem familiar. In the late 1970s, after the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), a similar exodus…

AMMAN, Feb 7 (KUNA) -- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented death of 210,060 people since eruption of the Syrian revolution on 15 March 2011 till 5 February 2015. In a detailed statement issued Saturday, the SOHR…

A London-based NGO reported that 10,664 children are among the victims. The death toll after nearly four years of civil war in Syria has risen to 210,060, nearly half of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the …

(Reuters) - The death toll after nearly four years of civil war in Syria has risen to 210,060, nearly half of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The…

The death toll after nearly four years of civil war in Syria has risen to 210,060 and the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The Observatory, which is based in Britain and has a…