August 2019

Syrian regime forces entered a key town on Sunday amid heavy fighting with jihadists and their rebel allies, a war monitor said. "Regime forces entered the town of Khan Shaykhun for the first since they lost control of it in 2014," said…

Syrian troops entered a key town in Idlib for the first time since 2014 after intense fighting with terrorists and their rebel allies in the northwestern province. Syrian ground troops “penetrated Khan Sheykhun in Idlib province for the…

Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians including 11 children in rebel-held northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive, a war monitor and local activists said on Saturday. An air…

Air strikes have resulted in the deaths of more than two dozen civilians in northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive against the last major rebel stronghold, a war monitor and local activists…

Syrian activists and a war monitor say airstrikes have pounded the southern edge of a rebel stronghold in the country’s northwest, with one strike killing seven people, including children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human…

Regime and Russian air strikes killed 11 civilians including a woman and six of her children in northwest Syria, a war monitor said Saturday, a day after a deadly air raid on a nearby displacement camp. An air strike by Syrian regime…

Pro-regime forces were locked in heavy fighting with insurgents Sunday near a jihadist-run town in northwestern Syria, leaving dozens of combatants dead, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said “fierce clashes”…

A car bomb exploded in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on Sunday, state TV reported. The car exploded near a high school in the Arbawiyeh neighborhood in the city amid reports of damage, said the report, spelling no further details.…

A car bomb killed a police officer and wounded two other people Sunday in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, police said, the second such attack in just over a month. Kurdish police spokesman Ali al-Hassan said the…

Syrian state media and an opposition war monitor say government forces have gained more ground in the country's northwest, almost reaching the western outskirts of a major rebel-held town. The state SANA news agency says government troops…