22/08/2017

RAQQA AND AIN ISSA, SYRIA — “If you refuse to join, IS militants take you away by force,” said Ahmed Ali, 29, a former farmer in Syria's northeastern countryside. “We don't actually know where they take people. But they don't come back.”…

The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has railed against the west, saying any security cooperation with western nations or the reopening of their embassies would not happen until they cut ties with opposition and insurgent groups.…

Kazakhstan said on Tuesday that the next talks to try to thrash out a Syria peace plan in its capital Astana may be held in mid-September, after Russia had planned to hold them in late August. Kazakhstan's foreign ministry wrote on…

“It was like hell. In the hospital it was very quiet despite all the people. Everyone was crying, crying from the gas, crying from looking at the bodies. It was so full, people were laid out on the floor. I almost stepped on the body of my…

US-led coalition air strikes on Raqqa killed at least 42 civilians after targeting densely-populated neighbourhoods of the Isis-controlled Syrian city, a monitoring group has said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

At least 42 civilians were killed Monday in a barrage of US-led air strikes on Islamic State group territory in the Syrian city of Raqa, a monitor said. Nineteen children and 12 women were among those killed in the raids, which hit…

Russia's air force has destroyed a large column of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants on their way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, killing over 200 militants, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defence Ministry as…

Dozens of so-called Islamic State (IS) militants are reported to have been killed in a Russian air strike near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zour. Russia's defence ministry said at least 200 jihadists had died after its air force…

Russia has intensified an air campaign this month to help drive ISIL out of its major stronghold of Deir Az Zor. Russian fighter jets killed more than 200 fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known…

Russia said on Monday it has intensified its air campaign in Syria to help President Bashar Assad’s forces drive Daesh from Deir El-Zour, a major stronghold for the group, killing an estimated 800 militants across the country this month…