May 2018

May 18, 2018--Two unknown gunmen killed Ibrahim al-Munjar, a correspondent for the Syrian news website Sy24 in the southern Syrian province of Daraa. Al-Munjar was killed in the city of Saida on May 17, according to his employer, news…

Eleven people were reported killed in the explosions, with dozens others wounded or considered missing. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the series of explosions happened inside Hama's military…

Pro-government forces and the Islamic State group observed a brief ceasefire in southern Damascus Saturday, a monitor said, after weeks of deadly fighting in the jihadists' last stronghold in the Syrian capital. The regime of President…

The Russian Ministry of Defense accused Israel of bombing an air base in Syria overnight, the Russian news agency Interfax reported on Monday. Syrian state media also accused Israel of carrying out the strike. Russia said Syrian air…

France's government is imposing new sanctions on people and companies suspected of helping Syria's chemical weapons program. The Finance Ministry and Foreign Ministry announced Friday a freeze on assets of three individuals and nine…

The unusual triple alliance coming out of Syria could change the regional balance of power and unhinge NATO — if it holds together at all. An unusual triple alliance is emerging from the Syrian War — one that could alter the balance of…

The international chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday that chlorine was likely used as a weapon in the rebel-held northern Syrian town of Saraqeb in early February, the latest report of poison gas being unleashed in Syria's civil war.…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a new batch of the “Islamic State” organization’s fighters and their families have departed after midnight of yesterday from the south of Damascus towards the Syrian Desert, where the…

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the clashes continue at a varying rate of violence in areas in the vicinity of al-Baghuz Foqani, and the surroundings of Hajin town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor,…

Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: an explosion shook Jarabulus town in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo after midnight of yesterday, the town is controlled by factions of the "Euphrates Shield", it turned out…