February 2015

An Australian has reportedly been killed in northern Syria after joining Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State militia. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an Australian was killed on Tuesday when Islamic…

BEIRUT -- Fierce fighting between Kurdish and Christian militiamen and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants is continuing in northeastern Syria where the extremist group recently abducted at least 70 Christians. Hassakeh…

An Australian man has reportedly become the first foreigner to die alongside Kurdish militants fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists in Syria. The 28-year-old man, who had assumed the Kurdish nomme de…

An Australian man has reportedly been killed while fighting against ISIS after becoming outnumbered when a truck he was travelling in broke down – he is the first Western mercenary to be killed fighting the terror group in Iraq. The…

Al- Quneitera Province: Clashes took place between Hezbollah, backed by the regime forces and Iranian fighters, and the Islamic factions near the town of al- Hamidiyyi in the mid- sector of the countryside of al- Quneitera in an attempt by…

Aleppo Province: Clashes took place between the regime forces supported by allied militiamen against the rebel and Islamic battalions in al- Madajen area in the south of Aleppo in an attempt by the regime forces to advance in the area.…

Rif Dimashq Province: IS militants attacked the Islamic factions’ positions in the two regions of Dakwah and Bir al- Qasab in the southeast of Rif Dimashq, information reported that IS could seize the area which was seized by the Islamic…

Deir Ezzor Province: Reliable sources reported to SOHR that IS militnats hanged 6 heads belonging to members of the regime forces who were killed during the clashes in Hwayjet Sakar, where they hanged these heads at the municipality, the…

  Cross- cutting information informed SOHR that IS has started to distribute applications for”employing teachers” in the schools in IS- held areas attached with a document of “asking repentance” in the province of Deir Ezzor.  …

One thousand Syrians submitted applications to the new General Security office in Arsal Wednesday to fix the legality of their refugee papers, the security agency announced. The office was erected Saturday for Syrian refugees in the…