04/09/2015

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON — In late spring, with the war in Syria grinding into its fifth year amid an ever-deepening humanitarian catastrophe for millions of refugees, 14 United States senators wrote a letter to President…

Hama Province: The warplanes carried out several raids on the villages and towns of al- Mansoura, al- Daqmaq and al- Qahera in Sahl al- Ghab. Aleppo Province: The number of fighters of the rebel and Islamist factions…

Damascus Province: The regime forces shelled places in al- Yarmouk Camp in the south of Damascus. The warplanes carried out 3 raids on the outskirts of Jobar neighborhood, no information about casualties. Rif…

Idlib Province: The warplanes carried out more raids on places around the two towns of al- Fu’ah and Kefrayya, amid dropping barrel bombs on the same places, and accompanied by ongoing clashes between Jabhat al- Nusra, Jund al- Aqsa and…

Homs Province: SOHR received information that IS detonated Berjiyyah sepulchers in the city of Palmyra seized by IS in May 20. It is cleared that the detonation executed in 2 phases during the first and last weeks of last August. Other…

Daraa Province: The helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the two towns of al- Sheikh Meskin and Ibtaa, no information about casualties so far.

Rif Dimashq Province: Clashes are taking place between the regime forces and allied militiamen against the rebel and Islamist factions around the city of Darayya in the Eastern Ghouta, accompanied by launching ground-to-ground missiles…

Idlib Province: The violent clashes between Jabhat al- Nusra, Jund al- Aqsa and the Islamist factions against NDF and the people’s committees trained by Hezbollah leaders continued around the two towns of al- Fu’ah and Kefrayya…

Aleppo Province: The violent clashes between the rebel and Islamist factions against IS are still taking place around the city of Marea, where the clashes that have taken place since yesterday night resulted in the death of 14 fighters…

The UN has criticized the European Union (EU) for failing to find a response to the spiraling refugee influx, urging the bloc to accept and distribute up to 200,000 asylum-seekers across the continent as part of a binding program for…