January 2017

After their advancement stopped for days at the edge of Swidiyyeh Sghireh area about 3 kilometers northwest of the strategic Dam of Euphrates in the northern countryside of Al-west of al-Raqqah, the Syria Democratic Forces began since the…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 75125 raids at least, carried out by Bashar al-Assad’s regime warplanes and helicopter in 20 months from the 20th November 2014 until the dawn of the 20th November 2016. The barrel bombs…

Isis militants have destroyed part of the Roman amphitheatre in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and its iconic tetrapylon, Syria’s state news agency and activists from the city said. The four-sided tetrapylon monument was one of the most…

The Islamic State group has demolished more treasured monuments in Syria's ancient Palmyra, a month after recapturing it from government forces, the country's antiquities chief said Friday. The news is a fresh blow for the UNESCO…

Islamic State militants have destroyed the facade of a second-century Roman amphitheater and another ancient monument in the historic city of Palmyra, Syria, the Syrian state-run news agency reported on Friday. The news agency, SANA, said…

More than 100 al-Qaeda militants were killed in an airstrike by US forces that targeted the fighters' training camp in Syria's Idlib province, the Pentagon said on Friday (20 January). The latest strike was the second major attack by the US…

A US air strike on Thursday targeting an al-Qaeda training camp in Syria killed more than 100 fighters, a US defence official said on Friday. The strike took place just a day before the end of President Barack Obama's presidency and a…

More than 40 fighters of former al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front were killed in air strikes on their camp in northern Syria late on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it could not…

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The tension is still taking place since the 19th of January 2017 in several areas in the countryside of Idlib, between the Islamic movement of Ahrar al-Sham and Fateh al-Sham Front,…

Al-Suwaidaa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Clashes took place after midnight yesterday between the pro-regime NDF against the “Islamic State” organization in Ara village area in the northeastern countryside of…