December 2018

Deir Ezzor Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued violent clashes between the "Islamic State" organization against the Syria Democratic Forces, in areas in the…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 4 members at least of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them after their position was targeted by a guided missile fired by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in the area of Tell Mamu…

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters have seized control of the town of Hajin in eastern Syria from Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor and a source in the militia leading the battle said on Friday. Hajin was the last big…

Two Kurdistan 24 journalists said they narrowly escaped an Islamic State bombing on December 12 as US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made advances against the group in Hajin, outside Deir Ezzor. This footage shows the moment of the…

Syrian fighters backed by the United States have driven Islamic State from the town of Hajin in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitoring group said on Friday. Hajin is the last town held by Islamic State in its…

Turkey will launch a new military operation against US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria “within a few days,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. “We will begin our operation to rescue the east of the Euphrates from the…

U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters captured the last town held by the Islamic State group on Friday, after days of intense battles in the militants' single remaining enclave in eastern Syria, activists said. The fall of Hajin is a blow to…

Kurdish forces are on the brink of capturing the last town under Isis control in Syria – but before that battle is over they might have to face a Turkish invasion. The town of Hajin, on the banks of the Euphrates river in eastern Syria, is…

Kurdish-led forces on Thursday moved deep into Hajjin, the main village in the last pocket still held by the Daesh group in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with support from airstrikes conducted by…

The main Syrian Kurdish-led militia warned on Thursday that threats by Turkey's president to launch a new military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria will negatively impact their fight against the Islamic State group.…