September 2015

Homs province: Rose to 17 including 4 children and 4 women the number of civilians who were killed by a missile fired by regime forces targeted al-Waer neighborhood. Regime forces targeted Talbisa this morning with heavy machine-gun fire.…

Idlib Province: Calm is prevailing in the two towns of al- Fu’ah and Kefrayya after the breach of cease-fire that took place yesterday night, where Jabhat al- Nusra and the Islamist factions shelled places in the towns of Kefrayya and…

Secretary of State John Kerry’s talk of going along with a “complete and clear” operational understanding with Moscow, represents a significant shift. It is significant not only as far as its handling of the Syrian crisis over the last…

Some 30,000 people from over 100 countries, including more than 250 Americans, have traveled to Syria and Iraq since 2011 to join the ranks of  militant groups operating in the two countries, a report says. Most of the militants have…

UK has extended the use of surveillance aircraft in Iraq and Syria until next year. The Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said the operations will continue to provide information to British and other US-led forces fighting ISIL…

Secretary of State John Kerry’s talk of going along with a “complete and clear” operational understanding with Moscow represents a significant shift. It is significant not only as far as its handling of the Syrian crisis over the last…

A few months after Russian President Vladimir Putin brazenly annexed Crimea from Ukraine, President Barack Obama dismissed those analysts who hailed Putin’s land grab as a masterful strategic coup: “Three or four months ago, everybody in…

Iraq said on Saturday that its military officials were engaged in intelligence and security cooperation in Baghdad with Russia, Iran and Syria to counter the threat from the ISIS militant group, a pact that could raise concerns in…

France announced its first air strikes against ISIS in Syria on Sunday, following its decision to expand its bombing campaign against the jihadists from neighboring Iraq. The president's office said the strikes hit targets identified…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will try to launch a new initiative for a political solution in Syria during meetings in New York in the next week, starting with talks with his Iranian counterpart on Saturday, U.S. and other Western…