December 2018

  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…

The jihadist rebel group “Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham” is preparing to execute a Syrian journalist for allegedly giving coordinates to enemy forces in the Idlib province. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Hay’at Tahrir…

One year after the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) was declared defeated by Iraq, the jihadis remain entrenched across the border in an eastern pocket of neighboring Syria. The Iraqi government declared Monday a national holiday in…

Syrian official media denied the reports of airstrikes near Damascus International Airport on Sunday evening, December 9, 2018, after it had initially reported that Syrian defenses had intercepted “enemy arial targets” in the vicinity of…

The bulldozers growling as soldiers sealed a tunnel that crossed beneath Lebanon’s border into Israel provided the kind of prop Benjamin Netanyahu loves. The Israeli prime minister told diplomats who’d braved fierce rains that Iran’s…

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…