August 2017

Airstrikes by the International Coalition warplanes continue to target ISIS-controlled areas in Al-Raqqah causing more casualties among civilians, tens of thousands of whom are besieged, trapped between the hammer of the “Islamic State”…

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces shelled after midnight areas in the vicinity of Jam’eyat Al-Zahraa, west of Aleppo, and other areas in Kafr Houmrah, Al-Lirmoun and Horiyatan in the northern…

Homs Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces shelled this morning areas in Talbesa city and Al-Ghantou town in the northern countryside of Homs, causing injuries. In addition, several mortar shells were dropped…

A top U.S. diplomat in the fight against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has praised recent talks with Syrian tribal leaders slated to play a large role in governing Raqqa once the jihadists are expelled. But the plan to create a…

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…