08/12/2018

While campaigning for president in late 2015, Donald Trump promised a bloody escalation of the US-led war against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, vowing to “bomb the shit out of” IS militants and “take out their families.” Targeting…

Fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have broken into Hajin, an eastern holdout of ISIS on the Iraqi border, a commander told Agence France Presse. The SDF, made up of Arab and Kurdish factions, launched the offensive on…

Dozens of fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed in and around the key town of Hajin in southeast Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)…

Dozens of Jisr al-Shughur children participated in a bike race on December 5 hosted by the White Helmets and NuDay Syria, local news reported. The race was organized in honor of International Volunteer Day, according to the White Helmets.…

A spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS, outlawed in Russia) terror group declined on Friday to either confirm or deny reports that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have entered the Syrian city of Hajin. The…

A schoolboy allegedly responsible for an attack on a young Syrian refugee has said he fears for his life after being targeted with violent threats. The teenager, whose name cannot be revealed for legal reasons, said he and his family have…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a military convoy of Iranian forces arrived within the last 24 hours to the points of the Iranians in the southern countryside of Hama, and in the details obtained by the Syrian…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored violent clashes took place after midnight of yesterday in al-Sakhr area in the northern country of Hama within the demilitarized area, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them…

One morning in mid-October, a gravedigger called Abu Ahmed struck his shovel on a paving stone buried under four feet of dirt in Raqqa’s Panorama Park. Once among the greenest places in the city, this denuded square on the northern…

The International Committee of the Red Cross warns it will take Syria and its people decades to recover from more than seven years of warfare. A senior Red Cross official who has just returned from Syria describes the level of…