14/03/2015

Aleppo province: Warplanes bombarded Tal Ref'at, al-Mallah, A'zaz outskirts, Andadn, Mare', and al-Qabr al-Englizi. Clashes took place between regime forces backed by non-Syrian militiamen against rebel and Islamic battalions backed by …

Lattakia province: Mohammad Tawfiq al-Assad "Shekh al-jabal " was killed with several head shots during an argument with a powerful person in al-Qerdaha area, Mohammad's father is a cousin of Bashar al-Assad, who were able to make hundreds…

The United States does not want to see a chaotic demise of the Syrian regime as it could open doors to Islamist extremists to seize power, said CIA Director John Brennan on Friday. With the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria…

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was working with Congress to provide nearly $70 million in new foreign support to the moderate Syrian opposition fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. “Today, I can announce a modest…

By Sarah Kaplan The fourth anniversary of Syria’s civil war this week has prompted a brutal accounting of the conflict’s human cost: 210,000 dead and 840,000 wounded, an average life expectancy at birth that has plummeted by…

Despite Western and Arab hopes he would be consigned to the dustbin of history, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad enters his fifth year of war with an increasingly tight hold on power.   Alarm over the sweeping expansion of the Islamic…

An innocent man with severe mental disabilities was reportedly shot and left to die in the streets by ISIS police in Syria. Whilst passing through a checkpoint, an ISIS police officer began to interrogate the mentally disabled man.…

Nearly 13,000 Syrians, including 108 children, have been tortured to death in government prisons since the country's uprising began in March 2011, a UK-based rights group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday…

The Syrian conflict will reach a grim milestone on Sunday, as it will reach the fourth anniversary of the civil war that has devastated the country and has fast become the worst refugee crisis in recent memory. More than 210,000 people…

Mohamad Ali Harissi Agence France-Presse The Nation It has become known for horrific images of beheadings and torture, but the Islamic State group is trying to lure foreign recruits to its "caliphate" with promises of adventure, homes,…