February 2019

The sound of mortar shelling and fighter jets whizzing by filled the air. At the base in this small village, fighters from the U.S.- backed Syrian Democratic Forces coordinate with their comrades about two kilometers (1.2 miles) away who…

The sound of mortar shelling and fighter jets whizzing by filled the air. At the base in this small village, fighters from the U.S.- backed Syrian Democratic Forces coordinate with their comrades about two kilometers (1.2 miles) away who…

US-backed forces have captured the last enclave held by Daesh in Syria under a deal with the Daesh terrorist group, a UK-based monitoring group says. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the last few hundred…

French authorities have filed preliminary charges of complicity in crimes against humanity against a Syrian man suspected of being involved in a secret police crackdown on opposition activists during the Syrian uprising of 2011.…

The battle to claim the last pocket of territory from the Islamic State group (IS) is being held up because thousands of civilians remain trapped there. US-backed Kurdish forces launched an assault on Baghuz, on the Syrian side of the…

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured ISIS’ last remaining enclave in eastern Syria, announced the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Saturday. The UK-based war monitoring group stated the last few hundred…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said U.S.-backed fighters seized the last Islamic State enclave in eastern Syria on Saturday after the jihadists who were still there surrendered. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.…

Jihadist fighters defending the last dreg of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate” on Saturday were holed up in half a square kilometre in a village of eastern Syria. US President Donald Trump said the fall of the IS…

Syrian regime bombardment has killed 18 civilians in the last major region outside regime control in northwest Syria over the past 48 hours, a war monitor said on Saturday. Artillery and rocket fire launched by regime forces took the lives…

Regime bombardment has killed 18 civilians in the last major region outside government control in northwest Syria over the past 48 hours, a war monitor said on Saturday. Artillery and rocket fire launched by regime forces took the lives of…