December 2018

The violations continue to escalate in the Russian – Turkish truce areas at the 4 provinces, where the drones targeted with several explosive bombs areas in the contact lines at the areas of al-Hakoura and Khirbet al-Naqous in the western…

The violations continue in areas of the Russian – Turkish truce in the 4 provinces, which was agreed upon between Russian and Turkish guarantors on the 15th of August 2018, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitors the renewed…

A bomb blast in a northwestern Syrian town held by Turkish-backed opposition forces killed at least eight people Sunday, activists said, the latest in a series of attacks along the border where Turkey has troops. The spike in attacks…

Fighting against the Islamic State group in its last enclave in eastern Syria "is going very well," a U.S. official said Saturday as U.S.-backed Syrian fighters battled the extremists on the edge of the largest urban area they still hold.…

The Syrian army on Saturday targeted rebel groups trying to infiltrate Syrian military positions in the demilitarized zone in the countryside of Hama province, according to state news agency SANA. The army targeted the rebels of the…

A car bomb killed at least eight people, including four civilians, near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Sunday (Dec 16), a British-based war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was…

US-led coalition forces destroyed an Islamic State group command center inside a mosque in the Syrian border town of Hajin on Saturday, the US military said. The statement comes as Kurdish-led forces mop up the final remnants of IS…

Christmas decorations are going up for the first time in years in a Damascus neighborhood that was a frontline in Syria’s war until government forces wiped out the last rebel enclaves in the capital earlier this year. “Christmas…

The US military set up two more bases in Syria’s Raqqa province near the border with Turkey as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) dispatched military convoys to the region to confront an impending invasion of the Turkish Army. The Syrian…

The Russian – Turkish Armistice completed its fourth straight month, since the 15th of August 2018, in the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, and Latakia in areas controlled by the rebel and Islamic factions and "jihadi" factions, and the…