02/04/2015

Islamic State (IS) militants have entered the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, activists and Palestinian officials say, the BBC reports. Clashes erupted between the militants and groups inside the camp, with IS seizing control…

Clashes between armed factions and the Islamic State group raged in the Yarmuk refugee camp in southern Damascus after IS seized much of the Palestinian haven Wednesday in a lightening assault. "Fighters from IS launched an assault this…

Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 people in a Syrian village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria.…

AFP, Beirut Wednesday, 1 April 2015 ISIS on Tuesday executed at least 37 civilians, including two children, in a raid on a regime-held village in Hama province of central Syria, a monitor said. ISIS “executed at least 37 people,…

slamic State fighters, who control large swaths of territory in northern Syria, entered the Yarmouk camp in Damascus on Wednesday marking the deepest foray yet by the extremist group into the capital. By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue,…

Last week in “The numbers game: Counting the dead in Syria” Al Bawaba investigated who is counting Syria’s dead and what methods they are using to address major discrepancies in reported death tolls. Syria is now in its fifth year of a…

At an international donor conference for Syria held in Kuwait this week, Denmark has committed another 250 million Danish kroner for 2015 to the victims of the war-torn country. This brings Denmark’s total aid to Syria to more than 1…

The Daily Star   BEIRUT: Lebanon’s military court charged 12 people including a Lebanese soldier with kidnapping defected members of the Syrian army and handing them over to the Syrian government, a judicial source said. The…

(Reuters) - Jordan said it had temporarily closed its border crossing with Syria on Wednesday because of violence on the other side of the frontier, a move it described as a precautionary measure. The monitoring group Syrian Observatory…

Idlib Province: 5 people died due to aerial bombardment on places in the city of Idlib.   Clashes took place between the Nusra Front, Ahrar al- Sham movement, Jund al- Aqsa Organization and other Islamist groups against the regime…