April 2015

Damascus: Islamic State (IS) militants killed 10 people, many of them Kurds, in northern Syria on Friday and shot down a military aircraft in the south of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, or SOHR, reported. The NGO…

By AFP | Beirut Friday, 24 April 2015 The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shot down a regime aircraft near a key military airport in southern Syria Friday, with pro-ISIS Twitter accounts saying the militant group had captured the…

BEIRUT — Rostom Ghazali, the Syrian general once considered the most powerful man in Lebanon and a key suspect in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, has died in a hospital in the capital Damascus, a Syrian…

BEIRUT: At least 2,000 people, mostly Islamic State terrorists, have been killed in Syria by a US-led air campaign in the past seven months, a monitoring group said Thursday. “At least 1,922 fighters from IS, mostly foreigners, have been…

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and other Islamist fighters made gains on Friday in a joint offensive on the last major regime bastion in the northwest province of Idlib, a monitor said. The assault, which began on Thursday, has seen…

Beirut: At least 60 Syrian government loyalists were killed in fighting as rebels overran their last major foothold in the northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, a monitoring group said. "Our sources on the ground counted…

BEIRUT — Hard-line Syrian rebel groups seized a strategic town Saturday in northwestern Syria, sending government troops fleeing after intense clashes that have seen the opposition take nearly all of a crucial province. The takeover…

The UN says it will host separate talks with warring sides in Syria next month in a bid to put an end to more than four years of conflict in the Arab country.   UN spokesman, Ahmad Fawzi, told journalists that invitations had…

Islamist rebels have captured the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour, their second major victory in less than a month as they push back Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the north and inch closer to his coastal stronghold. For the first time…

BEIRUT – Hard-line Syrian rebel groups seized a strategic town Saturday in northwestern Syria, sending government troops fleeing after intense clashes that have seen the opposition take nearly all of a crucial province.   The takeover…