February 2019

A total of 70 civilians were killed or wounded by a US-led airstrike in eastern Syria, state agency SANA reported on Tuesday. The airstrike targeted a camp for displaced people in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour on Monday evening,…

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…

More than a dozen civilians have been reportedly killed in the last 24 hours as the battle for the last territory held by Isis nears its end in eastern Syria. Some 16 people, among them seven children and eight women, were hit by an…

Syrian fighters backed by artillery fire from a US-led coalition battled a fierce terrorist counteroffensive as they pushed to retake a last morsel of territory from the Daesh in an assault lasting days. A war monitor said a coalition air…

US-led coalition air strikes on the last pocket of land under Islamic State control in eastern Syria have killed 16 civilians, including at least seven children, an activist group has said. Eight women and one elderly man were also among…

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…