19/04/2015

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian militants, including members of al-Qaida's local branch, attacked a government intelligence center in the northern city of Aleppo, damaging much of the building by blowing up a tunnel under it, activists said Tuesday.…

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News Sunday, 12 April 2015 A Syrian regime air strike hit a school in the main northern city of Aleppo on Sunday killing five children and four other civilians, a monitoring group said. "Military aircraft…

Beirut (AFP) - Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate led a fierce assault on an intelligence base in Aleppo city Monday night after regime attacks on civilian infrastructure in the city forced rebels to shut schools. Along with other Islamist…

A Syrian regime air strike hit a school in the main northern city of Aleppo on Sunday killing five children and four other civilians, a monitoring group said. "Military aircraft struck a school in east Aleppo city and killed five…

"In the horror that is Syria, the Yarmouk refugee camp is the deepest circle of hell," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on April 9. "A refugee camp is beginning to resemble a death camp." Yarmouk, a small urban enclave on the…

The UN announced on Saturday that the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) will make an urgent trip to Yarmouk, a Syrian refugee camp that has fallen under control of the Islamic State (IS). According to…

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian government air raid struck near a school in an opposition-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least nine people, including five children, activists said. The Aleppo Media Center and…

(Reuters) - A group monitoring the Syrian war said at least nine people including five children were killed in a Syrian army air strike that hit a school in a rebel-held area of the country's second city Aleppo on Sunday, though the army…

PARIS (AFP) - The first French weapons from a US$3 billion (S$4 billion) Saudi-funded programme will arrive in Lebanon on Monday as allies seek to bolster the country's defences against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other…

AT least 1,600 Britons have fled the UK to join Islamic State extremists – and the true figure could be many thousands more.   The shock statistic is more than TWICE the official police estimates and indicates a serious…