August 2019

More than 100,000 people are thought to have been detained, abducted or gone missing during Syria’s eight-year civil war, according to the United Nations. While the true number is difficult to verify because of a lack of access to…

Turkey said Thursday the deal it has reached with Washington to set up a so-called safe zone in northeastern Syria is a good start but warned against delays in implementation. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's comments came a day…

Turkey said Thursday that the deal it has reached with Washington to set up a so-called safe zone in northeastern Syria is a good start but warned against delays in implementation. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's comments came…

Since the “caliphate” that the self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) declared over wide swathes of Syria and Iraq in July 2014 was officially eliminated, the terrorist group’s remaining presence in Syria has been shrouded in controversy.…

While a deal struck on Wednesday between Turkey and United States has prevented a Turkish attack in northeast Syria, both the Turkish and Syrian regime forces have been resorting to sneaker tactics to destabilise the region, The Daily Beast…

Clashes between regime loyalists and militants in northwest Syria killed 55 combatants Saturday, as government forces continued to nibble away at territory held by its opponents, an activist group said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a…

Fierce battles raged on Saturday between Syrian government forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, and opposition factions in northwestern Syria where the two sides are fighting to control positions on the Hama-Idlib axis. “On the eve of the…

Syrian regime forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, continued on Friday to advance in north Hama, controlling more areas in the buffer zone, which was created in the Sochi deal inked between Russia and Turkey last September. Informed…

Syrian government forces seized territory from insurgents in northwestern Syria on Thursday, state media and a war monitor said, building on advances since the military declared an end to a brief ceasefire earlier this week. The capture of…

Regime forces captured two villages from jihadists and allied rebels in northwest Syria on Thursday following deadly clashes, days after ditching a ceasefire for the area, a war monitor said. The villages of Al-Sakhr and Al-Jaysat in Hama…