12/12/2018

A senior Syrian official says the US and France are carrying out illegal excavations in ancient sites in northern Syria with the help of Kurdish militants. Much of the digging work is conducted on the Um al-Sarj mountain near Manbij, head…

Iraq’s air force struck two ISIS targets across the border in Syria on Tuesday, hitting a total of 44 militants, it announced in a statement. “Our jets hit two targets, one of them being a hideout of 30 ISIS militants preparing to hold an…

Masked gunmen in ’s rebel-held northwestern province shot and killed on Friday a prominent anti-government journalist who was also a sharp critic of Islamist militants. ‘ U.S.-funded Radio Fresh station provided news of the conflict to ’s…

The U.N. Special envoy for Syria said Monday work is still ongoing to form a committee meant to draft a new constitution before the end of the year, adding that hurdles remain in place. Staffan de Mistura made his comments in Jordan after…

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters pushed deeper into the Islamic State group’s last remaining stronghold on Monday, capturing an abandoned hospital. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces entered the eastern town of Hajin last week and intense…

Over half a million people have been killed in seven years of war in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Monday. The conflict began in March 2011 and is still ongoing. Over the years it has morphed from civil…

An activist-run Syrian war monitor estimates that around 560,000 people, including fighters and civilians, have died since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that it…

Sana, Syria's state-run news agency, reported on Sunday that the country's military intercepted targets around Damascus International Airport, but later claimed the purported attack had not happened. “Our air defences intercepted enemy…