January 2019

A bomb exploded near a highway at the southern edge of Syria’s capital Damascus on Sunday morning, state media reported. An attacker was arrested and no one was injured, state news agency SANA said. The head of the city’s civil defence,…

A bombing in the Syrian capital on Sunday targeted a military checkpoint on a main highway during rush hour, state media reported. There was no immediate word on casualties from the blast in the southern neighborhood of Qazaz, near the…

Syrian state media say air defenses repelled an Israeli air raid near the international airport south of Damascus on Sunday. Syrian state TV said the air defenses "prevented" the attack from achieving its goals. It said Israel fired six…

A bomb blast in a bus killed three civilians Sunday in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on the first anniversary of a Turkish attack on the Kurdish-majority region, a war monitor said. Nine other people, including fighters, were wounded…

A huge explosion has been heard near a military intelligence office at the southern edge of Syria's capital Damascus, Syrian state media has reported. The head of the city's civil defence, Asef Hababe, told the Reuters news agency the…

An explosion rocked the Kurdish Syrian city of Afrin on Sunday, killing and injuring more than a dozen people, a health source said. The blast targeted a local bus near the Kawa cross-road, but it was not immediately clear whether it was a…

A “huge explosion” near a military intelligence office in Damascus on Sunday (Jan 20) left a number of people dead and wounded, a war monitor said, after state TV reported that early indications suggested a “terrorist act”. “The explosion…

In a December 19 tweet announcing the withdrawal, Trump said, "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency". The death toll in an attack on US and coalition troops in the northern Syrian town…

An explosion rocked the southern edge of Syria's capital Damascus on Sunday morning, Syrian state media has reported. The head of the city's civil defence, Asef Hababe, told Reuters the blast came from military technicians…

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria have in recent days forced their rivals’ surrender in the country’s final rebel-held pocket, cementing control while increasing the likelihood of a ruinous showdown with Syrian government forces. Hayat…