May 2019

In part of northern Syria's last rebel enclave, doctors have pulled back into cave shelters to treat the wounded and protect their patients from a government offensive that has hit health centres and hospitals. The assault began in late…

The Syrian army on Wednesday captured a key city in the countryside of Hama province in central Syria, as part of the military campaign launched recently against the ultra-radical rebels, a war monitor reported. The army captured the city…

Syrian pro-government media say troops have pushed their way into a rebel-held enclave in the northwest, clashing with insurgents and widening an offensive that until now had mainly involved aerial bombings and shelling. The Central…

Violence in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib has displaced more than 150,000 people in the past week, the United Nations said Tuesday, as the regime and Russia upped deadly bombardment of the jihadist bastion. The uptick in strikes…

The situation in Idlib is one of  "great uncertainty" and no forecasts can be made about developments in the coming days says the Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo of the Latins, Msgr. Georges Abou Khazen, commenting on the clashes between…

For nine days, Syrian matriarch Fatima al-Masri has slept under olive trees near the Turkish border, after fleeing air strikes by the regime and its allies on her hometown. “We ran from the bombardment and the barrel bombs,” said…

More than 180 people have been killed and over 150,000 have fled their homes in Syria’s Idlib province in a devastating bombing campaign by the Syrian regime and its allies over the last week. Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt and French…

The Syrian regime and Russia continued their airstrikes in northern Syria on Wednesday as Syrian opposition media conceded the loss of the strategic town of Kafr Nabudah in northern Hama province. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Syrian doctors have pulled back into cave shelters to treat the wounded and protect their patients from a government offensive that has hit health centers and hospitals in northern Syria’s last rebel enclave. The assault began in late…

For nine days, Syrian matriarch Fatima al-Masri has slept under olive trees near the Turkish border, after fleeing air strikes by the regime and its allies on her hometown. "We ran from the bombardment and the barrel bombs," said the…