20/02/2019

The Syrian government and rebels swapped prisoners on Tuesday as part of a peace process brokered by Russia, Iran and Turkey, the Turkish government said. "Many people who had been detained by rebel groups and by the Syrian regime have…

An ISIS militant who appeared in a video beheading a foreigner in 2016 has been killed in a battle with U.S.-backed forces in Syria. Indonesian citizen Muhammad Saifuddin, who used the aliases Abu Walid and Mohammed Karim Yusop Faiz, was…

Kurdish-led fighters battling to capture Islamic State’s last major stronghold in Syria are making “slow and methodical” progress, the U.S.-led coalition backing them said on Tuesday. “The enemy is fully entrenched and ISIS fighters…

Seven children were among 16 Syrian civilians killed on Monday by US-led coalition air strikes on Islamic State positions, a war monitor said. The bombardment was part of the military support that coalition forces provide for the…

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) is currently on their last legs in the eastern region of the Euphrates River Valley as their recent string of losses have left them confined to a small pocket in eastern Deir Ezzor. In addition to…

The Syrian government and the country’s militants on Tuesday swapped prisoners as part of a peace process brokered by Iran, Russia and Turkey, Ankara said. Turkey's foreign ministry said in a statement that “many people” detained by the…

The ferocious battle for the Islamic State group’s last bastion in eastern Syria entered its fifth day on Wednesday, as exhausted families left the ever-shrinking scrap of land where holdout jihadists have been boxed in by Kurdish-led…

Exhausted families trudged out of the Islamic State group's last bastion in eastern Syria Tuesday, as Kurdish-led forces boxed holdout jihadists into an ever-shrinking pocket. Hundreds fled at night but hundreds more during the day as…

Exhausted families trudged out of the Islamic State group's last bastion in eastern Syria Tuesday, as Kurdish-led forces boxed holdout jihadists into an ever-shrinking pocket. Hundreds fled at night but hundreds more during the day as…

The U.S. military said Tuesday it struck a mosque that had allegedly been used as an Islamic State control center, as American-allied Syrian forces battled the extremists in their last stronghold in eastern Syria amid reports of more…