January 2019

Hundreds of people have fled the Islamic State group’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…

Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria are pinned down in a final tiny pocket with their wives and children, forcing a U.S.-backed militia to slow its advance to protect civilians, the militia said on Tuesday. An aid agency said…

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…

A suspected Islamic State suicide attack on the governing council of insurgent-held Idlib in northwest Syria on Tuesday killed one person and injured three others, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The target was the National…

A suicide bomb attack targeted the headquarters of a council that governs the insurgent-held Idlib region of northwestern Syria on Tuesday, killing a number of people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack in Idlib city…

A suspected Islamic State suicide attack on the governing council of insurgent-held Idlib in northwest Syria on Tuesday killed one person and injured three others, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The target was the…

An explosion targeted on Tuesday a building taken as a command center by the al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria's Idlib, inflicting casualties, a war monitor reported. The bombing, believed to be carried out by a female suicide bomber,…

Syrian opposition activists say a woman has blown herself up, killing two people, outside an administration office for an al-Qaida-linked group in the northern city of Idlib. The Local Coordination Committees say Tuesday’s blast outside…

Syrian opposition activists say a woman has blown herself up, killing two people, outside an administration office for an al-Qaida-linked group in the northern city of Idlib. The Local Coordination Committees say Tuesday's blast outside…

Syrian government forces shelled a northwestern town held by al-Qaida-linked militants Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding others, in the most intense bombardment of the area since a Russian-Turkish truce was brokered four…