May 2019

The Syrian army is launching “intensive strikes on dens of Jabhat al-Nusra,” a group formerly affiliated with al Qaeda, in a village in southwestern Idlib province Sunday, Syrian state media is reporting. The escalation in violence in…

The Syrian Army has so far captured 13 villages and towns in the northern countryside of Hama province in central Syria following two-week long battles with the rebels, a war monitor reported on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human…

Insurgents fired rockets into a government-held Christian town in northwestern Syria on Sunday, killing six people, including five children who were playing near a monastery and wounding several others, state media and a local priest said.…

Concern is growing among hundreds of Yazidis who fled their homes due to the Turkish intrusion of northwestern Syria to neighboring Lebanon, as the religious minority faces a possible forced return by Lebanese authorities. An estimated 500…

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation on late Monday evening to discuss recent developments in Syria's Idlib and bilateral relations. President Erdogan stressed that the…

Syrian regime forces are advancing further into the last area of the country controlled by opposition, rebels as well as militants. The regime and its Russian ally unleashed a renewed wave of violence on April 30, using barrel bombs,…

Rights groups Monday urged the international community to pressure all sides in Syria's war to reveal the fate of "tens of thousands" of people gone missing over years of conflict. "Tens of thousands have been forcibly disappeared by the…

The head of Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate in a video released Sunday urged supporters to “take up weapons” to defend his group’s bastion of Idlib against increased bombardment. The Damascus regime and its Russian ally have in recent…

The head of Syria's former Al Qaeda affiliate in a video released Sunday urged supporters to "take up weapons" to defend his group's bastion of Idlib against increased bombardment. The Damascus regime and its Russian ally have in recent…

Rebel rocket fire killed four children and a woman Sunday in a regime-held town outside the embattled extremist bastion of Idlib in northwest Syria, state news agency SANA said.The bombardment by "terrorist groups" on the Christian-majority…