15/10/2016

President Bashar Al Assad of Syria intends to capture all of Aleppo at all costs and use the city as a "springboard" from which to liberate other areas of the country. "You have to keep cleaning this area and to push the terrorists to…

Turkey-backed Syrian rebels began an attack on Islamic State's symbolically potent stronghold of Dabiq in northwestern Syria on Saturday, a rebel commander said, taking territory that has all but cut it off according to a war monitor.…

Syrian opposition fighters backed by Turkish airstrikes launched an offensive Saturday to try to capture Dabiq from the Islamic State group, which assigns special status to the northern Syrian town in its ideology and propaganda. The…

Syrian residents in the opposition-held eastern part of Aleppo hunkered under a fresh wave of airstrikes on Friday amid intense clashes between government forces and rebels, while a senior opposition official warned that supplies of…

US and Russia to be joined in Lausanne by UN and Middle East powers on different sides of the five-year conflict. Fresh diplomatic talks to end the Syrian conflict are due to open in Switzerland, the first since the…

Top diplomats were to meet in Switzerland Saturday in a fresh push to revive a ceasefire in Syria, after pro-government forces intensified their bombardment of the battered city of Aleppo. Since the collapse of a truce last month,…

New talks are under way in Switzerland in which the US and Russia will try to broker another ceasefire in Syria. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's Sergei Lavrov are meeting delegates from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and…

Homs province: Clashes taking place between Hweses and al-Hair palace between regime forces and IS amid bombardment on the area. Areas of al-Sokhna were exposed to aerial bombardment. Aerial bombardment also targeted Talbisa, Om Sharshouh,…

Aleppo province: 1 rebel was shot and killed by the Turkish border guards. Aerial bombardment targeted al-Mansoura and Dar Azza, and areas of Khan Toman, Rashdin, Tamanaa. Clashes taking place between regime forces and rebels around Aziza…

Hama province: Aerial bombardment targeted Kafar Zita amid aerial bombardment on Maardas, Tal Bazam, Soran, and areas of the northern eastern countryside. Regime forces targeted the area with missiles, no reports of losses. Aerial…