March 2015

Idlib Province: The helicopters re-dropped barrel bombs on areas in the city of Idlib with no information about casualties so far. They also dropped other barrels on the town of Ma’arret Mesrin leading to wound and kill some people.The…

Homs Province: The regime forces opened fire on the eastern farmlands of the city of Talbisah and on the road linking between the city of Talbisah and town of al- Ghanto in the north of Homs.   Clashes took place between the regime…

MADRID — Police on Tuesday arrested four members of a family, including 16-year-old twin boys who were allegedly about to travel to Syria to become jihadi fighters, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry statement said the parents and…

A regime that has no support among its own population cannot survive years of civil war, no matter how powerful it is or how much support it gets from abroad The Syrian conflict has entered its fifth year,…

Turkey is reportedly sealing the last of its border crossings with Syria. The news, which has yet to be confirmed by officials but was revealed by the international press, is a sober metaphor for the prevailing attitude towards the…

By Juan Cole The provincial capital Idlib, a city of 165,000 in the old days and administrative center of the northwestern Idlib province, appears to have fallen completely to a Muslim fundamentalist coalition…

Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz says the joint Turkish-US train-and-equip program for 'vetted' Syrian fighters can start in May.   The train-and-equip program for vetted Syrian fighters can begin in May in Turkey, Turkish defense…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Syria's government aimed at blunting its weapons programs and pushing it into negotiations with rebels. The Treasury Department's action targets Batoul Rida, a Syrian central bank…

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — The United States pledged $507 million in humanitarian aid at an international donors' conference for Syria on Tuesday as the United Nations issued an appeal for $8.4 billion in commitments this year — the organization's…

Hama province: Rose to 37 the number of civilians who were killed by IS in al-Mabouja village east of Salamia city which is inhabited by Sunni, Smaili, and Alawite, many others are still missing, it is still unknown whether if they flee the…