October 2017

A violent explosion rocked at dawn of today the 15th of October 2017, the leadership area of al-Bakkara Youth Gathering of Deir Ezzor Military Council and the Syria Democratic Forces, in the southern countryside of Al-Hasaka, and the Syrian…

A military source stated on Saturday that the Syrian Army has taken control of a “number of important points” surrounding Mayadin from ISIS militants, 44 kilometers southeast of Deir ez-Zor along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.…

Turkish troops entered Syria on Thursday as part of a deal to enforce a 'de-escalation zone' in the country The view from the Syrian village of Atme in Idlib province on 11 October shows Turkish military vehicles at a…

The battle for the city of Raqqa, which Islamic State had used as its headquarters in Syria, is drawing to an end. A British volunteer fighter of Syrian Democratic Forces runs for cover to avoid sniper fire of Islamic State militants,…

"The battle will continue until the whole city is clean," said a statement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias. The SDF said earlier that a group of the jihadists had left in a…

US-backed forces have launched their final assault on the remaining Islamic State (IS) militants in Raqqa. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says it began the offensive on Sunday, after a convoy of IS fighters and their families left…

Some foreign Islamic State group fighters have left the one-time jihadist bastion of Raqa in Syria under a deal as the city’s capture nears, a local official said Sunday. “A portion of the foreigners have left,” said Omar Alloush, a…

The fall of Raqqa is a milestone in the battle to defeat a group that seized swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014 * Final assault on Raqqa has begun - SDF * Islamic State convoy left with some civilians overnight * Not clear if…

US-backed forces announced the "final phase" of the battle to retake Syria’s Raqa on Sunday, after a group of foreign Islamic State group fighters left their one-time stronghold under an evacuation deal. Raqa was once the de facto Syrian…

A convoy of Islamic State fighters left Syria's Raqqa with some civilians overnight, the US-backed militias fighting them said on Sunday, bringing the battle for their one-time capital near its end. There were conflicting accounts of…