January 2019

US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the evacuation of civilians from Islamic State-held areas of Deir Ezzor on January 23. A day earlier, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that, after evacuating IS-held…

Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria yesterday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” to two small hamlets, a war monitor said. It is the culmination of a broad offensive…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said yesterday that Israel must stop its “arbitrary attacks” on Syria. “The practice of arbitrary strikes on the territory of a sovereign state – in this case, we are talking about Syria…

Russia has called on Israel to stop carrying out 'arbitrary' air strikes on Syrian territory, days after the Israeli Air Force targeted what Israel said were Iranian forces in the war-torn country. 'The practice of arbitrary strikes on the…

After Israel launched a major military operation targeting Iranian assets in Syria, Russia called on the Jewish state to scale back its attacks. “The practice of arbitrary strikes on the territory of a sovereign state—in this case, we are…

Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village  held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border "caliphate" to two small hamlets, a war monitor said. It is the culmination of a broad offensive…

A car bomb shook the Syrian regime’s coastal stronghold of Latakia on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen others, state news agency SANA reported. Authorities found a second explosive device in the same place and…

SANA new agency of the Syrian regime, said  "the existence of news about the bombing of an explosive device in al-Adawi area of Damascus," and activists published pictures showing smoke rising from the region. According to the agency that…

Fierce clashes erupted between 'diehard' ISIS fighters and US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Thursday, as part of a final push to drive militants from their last sliver of territory in the country, activists said. ISIS is now confined…

In an extraordinary statement, the Israeli military confirmed early Monday that it attacked Iranian military targets in Syria, hours after carrying out a rare daylight air raid near the Damascus International Airport. The statement was…