22/09/2015

Reef Dimashq provine: Areas of the eastern Ghouta were exposed to bombardment by regime forces, no reports of losses. The warplanes raided Duma. Clashes took place in Dahya al-Assad and around Duma leading to the death of 1 solider amid…

Aleppo provine: Rose to 6, including a child and a woman, the number of people who were killed by rebel shells targeted al-Medan neighborhood. 3 civilians from one family including a man, his wife, and their child, by shells targeted…

Homs province: No less than 38 IS were killed by air strikes targeted Tadmur, al-Qaritin, al-Sukhna, and area around it in the eastern southern countryside of Homs. Regime forces targeted area of al-Waer and al-Hawla, no reports of losses.…

Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen told the magazine Ræson that Denmark might expand its current military operation in northern Iraq to include bombing Isis targets in Syria. “I am open but haven’t decided. We will take a position on it…

The president of the European Parliament called on the EU to approve seven billion euros ($7.9 billion) for the Middle East countries hosting millions of Syrian refugees. Martin Schulz said EU members should raise the money to help…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s call on Saturday for renewed diplomatic efforts to end the Syrian conflict is wishful thinking, amid several indications that if anything, the war is likely to intensify. The call shows that Russian…

Israel and Russia agreed on a mechanism to avoid military confrontations between the two countries in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. “My goal was…

Everyone is talking about the refugee crisis overwhelming Europe – everyone apart from the League of Arab States, that is. To date it has had little to say on the topic and, as far as I can tell, has no plan to help alleviate the problem.…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow on Monday to seek reassurance from President Vladimir Putin about Russia’s military deployment in Syria and to lay out Israel’s concerns about the risk of weapons reaching militants…

Russia has now confirmed that it is intervening in the Syrian war on the side of the Assad government. And the response of the U.S. betrays its impotent incredulity. All the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry could do is to repeat that…