December 2015

David Gardner The lack of mainstream Sunni leadership is a blight across the Middle East ©Matt Kenyon There is a big Sunni hole at the heart of international efforts to find a way out of Syria’s civil war and turn the tide…

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Aleppo Province: The clashes between the regime forces and allied militiamen against IS are still taking around the village of al- Njarah north of Kwayres airbase located 16 km away from the city of al- Bab and the town of Tadef, in case…

Daraa Province: The Islamist factions targeted by several shells a regime forces’ checkpoint in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The helicopters dropped a barrel bombs on the village of Jadal in al- Lojat area. …

Homs Province: The violent clashes between the regime forces and allied militiamen against IS are still taking places around the town of Mahin, amid advancement for the regime forces and seizing new positions, the clashes accompanied by…

Rif Dimashq Province: The helicopters dropped more barrel bombs on the city of M’addamiyyat al- Sham in the Western Ghouta, no information about victims. Daraa Province: 4 fighters from the rebel and Islamist factions…

Hama Province: Warplanes believed Russian hit places in the villages of Aydoun, al- SatHiyyat and al- Tloul al- Homor in the southern countryside of Hama. Meanwhile, the number of explosive barrels dropped on the villages of al- Dallak,…

Deir Ezzor Province: The clashes between the regime forces and allied militiamen against IS are still taking place on the outskirts of al- Tahtouh, where IS could advance towards it after seizing the whole neighborhood of al- Sina’ah by…

Al- Hasakah Province: Clashes took place between YPG and IS in Jabal Abdulaziz area, where IS attacked YPG positions in the two areas of Kherbet Hanash and Soraqah in Jabal Abdulaziz area in the western countryside of al- Hasakah city,…

Aleppo Province: Warplanes believed Russian carried out several airstrikes on the neighborhood of al- Rashidin in the city of Aleppo, while the regime warplanes attacked places in the towns of Anadan, Hraytan and Hayyan in the northern…