December 2015

Lattakia province: Clashes continued after midnight between regime forces and rebels around the Turkman mount amid Russian airstrikes on the area, reports of losses in both sides. Massive explosions have been heard in Jabla city, conflicted…

Idlib province: Rose to 4 the number of people who were killed by Russian warplanes in Jesr al-Shughour, no less than 8 others were also wounded. Aleppo province: Clashes continued between regime forces and rebels around Aleppo city and…

Reef Dimashq province: 2 children were killed by shells targeted Dahya al-Assad which is under control by regime forces. Regime forces bombarded Qalamoun farmlands. 49 explosive barrels were dropped on areas of Daraya city and Ma'damia…

BERLIN –  Police in Germany have arrested a suspected people-trafficker over the drowning of five migrants off the coast of Turkey in April. Jens Schobranski, a spokesman for federal police, says the 37-year-old Syrian man was arrested…

  A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered by both Russian backing and the West's retreat from a hardline anti-Assad approach.…

By TIM ARANGO ISTANBUL — At Pages, a bookstore and cafe in a three-story wooden house in a tidy cul-de-sac up a hill in this city’s oldest quarter, a literary refuge has blossomed for young Arabs in exile — mainly Syrians but also Iraqis,…

BY JACK MOORE The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) lost more than a tenth of its territory in 2015 as offensive air and ground operations by the U.S.-led coalition, Syrian Kurdish fighters, Iraqi security forces…

The refugee crisis in Europe and the ongoing devastation in Syria gained worldwide attention in September when photos emerged showing a drowned Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, lying facedown on the shores of Bodrum, Turkey. Alan's father is now…

Immigration minister says he's confident 'fundamental target' of 25,000 by end of February will be met Immigration Minister John McCallum says more than 10,000 Syrian refugees will have passed medical exams and other requirements to be…

Daraa Province: An old women, her disabled son and, three of his children, children from the same family and a man killed due to dropping barrel bombs on the town of al- sheikh Meskin located in the northwestern countryside of Daraa.…