April 2019

Russia warned this week that it was growing impatient with the persistent presence of jihadis in the last Syrian province to be held by insurgents as it sat down with Turkey and Iran for talks. Vladimir Safronkov, Moscow's permanent…

Sleeper cells, prisons teeming with extremists, camps crammed with their wives and children -- perils abound in Syria, nearly a month after the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) was declared defeated. The Syrian Democratic Forces…

Forces linked to the Turkish army in Syria have continued the construction of a concrete isolation wall, started more than a year ago, in order to demarcate the Syrian border around the village of Afrin, cutting off the rest of rural areas…

SYRIAN dictator Bashar al-Assad is reinforcing troops in the east of the country after ISIS continues to make a comeback and grab more territory. According to reports, thousands of jihadis have massed in the desert between the city of Homs…

A powerful explosion on Wednesday in Syria's rebel-held northwest killed 15 people - including more than a dozen civilians - as rescuers searched for victims trapped under the rubble. A building of at least four storeys collapsed in the…

A powerful explosion Wednesday killed 15 people including more than a dozen civilians in militant-held northwest Syria, a war monitor said, as rescuers searched for people trapped under the rubble. An AFP reporter at the scene saw a…

A young Syrian with cerebral palsy, who trekked with a wheelchair from her homeland all the way to Germany as a refugee, on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to focus more on Syria's "invisible" disabled people. It was the first time…

Syrian government forces have discovered Israeli and US-made weapons and munitions from former positions of foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants in the country's southern province of Quneitra. An informed source, speaking on condition of…

A powerful explosion Wednesday killed 15 people including more than a dozen civilians in northwest Syria, a war monitor said, as rescuers searched for people trapped under the rubble. An AFP reporter at the scene saw a building of at least…

At least 17 people were killed on Wednesday in an explosion in the center of Jisr al-Shughour, an opposition-held city in northwestern Syria. Several residential buildings collapsed as a result of the blast in Idlib province, near a road…