11/04/2015

Jihadist fighters from the Islamic State group are holding hostage at least 50 civilians, almost half of them women, seized in a raid on a village in central Syria, a monitor said. They were kidnapped from the village of Mabujeh in Hama…

Militants of the Islamic State group captured at least 50 civilians during a raid on a Syrian village and are holding them hostage, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.  The U.K.-based observatory reported ISIS had…

By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State has bolstered its forces north of Syria's second city Aleppo, where it is attacking rivals as part of a broader push beyond its eastern strongholds, a rebel leader and a monitoring group…

United Nations officials said Friday that the siege of Yarmouk, the devastated refugee camp in Syria where 18,000 severely malnourished and dehydrated Palestinians are trapped, had worsened despite emotional entreaties from Secretary…

The PLO said Thursday it is against a Syrian military offensive into a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus that has been overrun by militants, going against earlier comments by a member voicing support for an operation, Reuters news agency…

The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday it is ready to offer Palestinian factions its firepower to support their battle with the Islamic State group  (ISIS), also known by the Arabic acronym Daesh, in the Yarmouk camp on the…

Aleppo Province: IS militants launched several shells on places in the town of Soran I’zaz in the northeast of Aleppo.   The Islamic battalions shelled by homemade shells areas in the regime- held neighborhood of al- Zahraa in the…

Reliable sources informed SOHR that YPG, backed by rebels, could seize the village of al- Jalabiyyi and another village located in the province of al- Raqqa after violent clashes continued for weeks with IS militants and accompanied with US…

Al- Suwaydaa Province: Clashes are taking place between the regime forces and allied militiamen against the Islamic battalions near the airbase of al- Tho’lah, amid mutual bombardment between the two sides.   12 members of the regime…

Idlib Province: A man from the city of Ma’arret al- Nu’man died after he was wounded during aerial bombardment on the city. Another man killed in unknown circumstance in the town of Eblin in al- Zaweyi Mountain. A fighter died after he was…