January 2016

Aleppo province: Shells fired by rebels fell on al-Hamdania neighborhood, al-Mohafaza, and al-Sabil, in Aleppo city, no reports of losses. Regime forces bombarded areas of Karam al-Tarab neighborhood, Bani Zaid, and al-Maysar what caused…

Belgian police arrested Saturday four people on suspicions that they planned to travel to Syria and Libya, AFP reported. The federal prosecutor's office said that around 500 Belgian nationals may have traveled to Syria as foreign…

In a statement Saturday, the United States military said its coalition allies targeted Daesh militants Friday with 17 airstrikes in Iraq and 16 strikes in Syria, Reuters reported. In Iraq, seven of the strikes were near Mosul, a…

More than 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees have vanished following their arrival in Europe and may have fallen into the hands of organized trafficking gangs, EU’s criminal intelligence agency says. Europol Chief of Staff Brian…

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour warned Saturday that it will be "very, very difficult" to continue accepting Syrian refugees without significant foreign aid and easier access to European markets for Jordan, Associated Press…

The unfortunate population of central Iraq is squeezed from two directions. Western media keep us informed in gruesome detail about the atrocities of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but official sources seem far more reluctant…

The unfolding Syrian crisis is now looking more and more like a carbon copy of the Palestinian crisis. Almost all the ‘constants’ of world powers towards the near east in the aftermath of the First World War remain unchanged. We are still…

Latakia Province: Russian warplanes carried out at least 26 strikes on areas in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman in the northern countryside of Latakia, while violent clashes continue between  the regime forces operations room led by…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a copy of the statement issued by the joint government of al-Jazira District in which they said that Turkey tried to enter villages and areas which are at the Turkish-Syrian border in order…

Aleppo Province: It rose to about 40 the number of raids carried out by Russian warplanes on a several neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo and on other areas in the northeastern countryside , where these raids targeted villages and areas…