March 2019

Hundreds of men, women and children trudged out of the Islamic State group's last sliver of territory Thursday as US-backed Syrian fighters once again slowed their advance to crush the "caliphate". All that remains of a once sprawling…

Kurdish-led fighters backed by US warplanes tried Thursday to break the last defences of holdout Islamic State group jihadists making a suicidal last stand in a remote Syrian village. All that remains of a sprawling cross-border…

Kurdish-led fighters backed by US warplanes tried Thursday to break the last defenses of holdout Daesh (the so-called IS) group jihadists making a suicidal last stand in a remote Syrian village. All that remains of a sprawling cross-border…

Washington on Thursday accused Russia and the Syrian government of being responsible for "escalating violence" in rebel-controlled Idlib province. Russian jets on Wednesday carried out air strikes in Idlib, the first such attacks since a…

Russian air strikes killed at least 13 civilians, including six children, on Wednesday in Idlib province, in the first such raids since a September truce deal, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said…

Turkey and Russia are discussing a "coordination center" to better manage their operations in Syria's Idlib province, which is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Turkey's defense minister said. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan…

Turkey and Russia are discussing a "coordination centre" to better manage their operations in Syria's rebel-controlled Idlib province, Turkey's defence minister said. Regime ally Russia and Turkey, which supports rebels, have been on…

US-backed forces have said Islamic State group was living its "final moments" after thunderous shelling on its last scrap of land in eastern Syria prompted 3,000 jihadists to surrender. Some die-hard IS fighters who stayed to defend the…

Russian air strikes killed at least 13 civilians, including six children, Wednesday in Idlib province, in the first such raids since a September truce deal, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said around…

Around 3,000 Islamic State members have surrendered from the group's last square mile of territory in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said on Tuesday, as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief pause. A ragged tent encampment in the eastern…