16/07/2015

By AFP | Beirut The extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has gained ground against the Syrian army in a major northeastern city, a monitor said Tuesday, after three weeks of clashes that killed 170 people. On June…

BAGHDAD // The Iraqi government began to dislodge ISIL militants from the country’s western Anbar province on Monday as it launched a long-awaited, large-scale military operation on the extremists. The operation started at dawn and…

More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State group in Syria have died this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The children, recruited under the militant group’s “cubs of the caliphate” program,…

Tokyo (CNN) - Fears are mounting for a freelance Japanese war reporter who has not been heard from for more than three weeks, after telling a friend he was planning to enter Syria. On June 23, Jumpei Yasuda, 41, told a close friend…

THE DAILY BEAST      Peace in our time? Not in the world’s bloodiest civil war, which is about to get much worse because of the new détente with Iran. There’s one person ecstatic about the Iran deal and Washington would probably…

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Iran should play a role in any political solution to Syria's ongoing civil war, signaling a significant shift in US policy with respect to Syria. "I think it's important for them to be part of…

Aleppo Province: The rebel battalion launched several shells landed on areas in Tishreen Street and Masaken al-Sabil neighborhood controlled by the regime forces in Aleppo city which caused injuries. The helicopters dropped 2…

Deir Ezzor Province: 3 Syrian IS members were killed after the warplanes carried out raids on positions for IS south of the city, SOHR published yesterday that 22 IS members were killed after a convoy of the “Islamic State” was targeted…

Al-Hasakah Province: Violent clashes are taking place between YPG and al-Sanadid army of the governor of al-Jazira Province Hamidi Dahham al-Hadi against IS in the southern outskirts of Al-Hasakah city, where the YPG and al-Sanadid army…

Hezbollah and the Syrian army pushed deeper into the Qalamoun city of Zabadani Wednesday, tightening the noose on Syrian militants who are besieged in their last stronghold along Lebanon’s border. Allied forces destroyed a militant…