21/12/2015

Ahmed E. Souaiaia American Muslims now live with three interconnected and devastating burdens: disastrous civil wars that are turning Syrians and Iraqis into unwanted refugees, acts of terrorism by fanatical groups that are distorting…

By Julian Hattem  Under fire from conservative critics, the United Nations’ refugee agency is insisting that critics have their facts wrong about the small number of Christians fleeing the civil war in Syria.   Against heated…

Al- Hasakah Province: Reliable sources informed SOHR that clashes erupted between YPG and IS after some IS militants could infiltrated into YPG-held areas in the vicinity of Jabal Abdulaziz near Sabe’ Zlam area, information about…

Homs Province: A fighter from the Islamist factions killed due to airstrikes carried out by suspected Russian warplanes on the city of Idlib. Al- Suwaydaa Province: IS machine-gunned places in the town of Haqef, followed…

Idlib Province: A person killed while 5 others wounded due to fall of shells on areas in the two towns of al- Fu’ah and Kefrayya. Aleppo Province: 16 fighters of the rebel and Islamist factions, including at least 9 from…

Lattakia Province: The violent clashes between the regime forces, backed by NDF, al- Baath Battalions, Hezbollah and allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against Jabhat al- Nusra the rebel and Islamist are still…

At tightly guarded facilities in south Lebanon, men as young as 17 undergo training by the Shiite guerrilla group Hezbollah on weapons and anti-insurgent tactics before being sent to Syria to fight alongside President Bashar Assad's…

A Lebanese militant notorious for the 1979 murder of three Israelis, including a little girl, has been killed in an Israeli air raid near Syria's capital, his Hezbollah movement said. Samir Kantar was freed by Israel as part of a…

Suspected Russian air strikes killed 36 people in Idlib province of northwest Syria Sunday, a monitor said, as the Arab League welcomed a UN-backed roadmap to end the country's conflict. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

A UN-backed roadmap to end the Syrian war was met with scepticism Saturday by members of the country's fractured opposition who insist President Bashar al-Assad must go to achieve peace. The US and Russian initiative, unanimously…