January 2019

Hundreds of people have fled Islamic State’s last major stronghold in Syria, including fighters who tried to sneak out among civilians, Syrian opposition activists said Monday. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S-backed and Kurdish-led…

ISIS is on the back foot in its last significant territory in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor. The militants are now corralled into about four square kilometres, but are fighting hard to hold onto what remains of their so-called caliphate. The…

Kurdish-led fighters pressed their assault against the Islamic State group in eastern Syria Monday, boxing the jihadis into a tiny last pocket of land along the Euphrates River. Bad weather and reduced visibility delayed the launch of yet…

Driving towards the frontline of what remains of the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" in eastern Syria, US-backed fighters pass huge craters from air strikes and buildings reduced to rubble. Backed by air strikes…

Kurdish-led fighters pressed their assault against the Islamic State group in eastern Syria Monday, boxing the jihadists into a tiny last pocket of land along the Euphrates River. Bad weather and reduced visibility delayed the launch of…

On January 21, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had hit Iranian military facilities based in Syria, including weapons depots in the area of Damascus International Airport, an intelligence center and a training camp, in response to a…

Syrian opposition activists said on Monday scores of civilians and fighters have evacuated the Daesh’s last major stronghold in Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said some 2,000 people, including 300 Daesh…

The deputy commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps warned Israel that a conflict with the Islamic Republic would “definitely lead to its elimination” and said that Tehran was pursuing a strategy to “eradicate the Zionist…

A car bomb went off in Syria's rebel-held northern city of Azaz in the countryside of Aleppo province on Monday, wounding five people, a war monitor reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the car bomb was detonated in…

A car bomb went off in Syria's rebel-held northern city of Azaz in the countryside of Aleppo province on Monday, wounding five people, a war monitor reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the car bomb was detonated in…