September 2019

A fragile Russian-backed ceasefire was holding yesterday in Syria’s violence-plagued northwest, following months of heavy bombardment of the anti-regime bastion, a war monitor said. “Relative calm prevails” over the Idlib region, said…

A fragile cease-fire in northwest Syria held Monday, months after the United Nations warned of a humanitarian crisis developing in the last rebel stronghold fighting against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Russia declared the…

On Saturday, as many as 50 rebels, mostly commanders, were murdered as a result of U.S.-led air attack that hit a meeting of rebel commanders in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported. The Syrian Observatory for…

Syria’s Idlib region saw a lull in air raids that have been pounding the insurgent territory, a monitor and rebel official said on Saturday, after the government said it was ceasing fire. It is the second such truce declared this month in…

Russia's military said the United States had mounted air strikes in Syria's Idlib without forewarning Moscow or Ankara, endangering a ceasefire there, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday. The strikes without a heads-up in the…

Russia’s military said the United States had mounted air strikes in Syria’s Idlib without forewarning Moscow or Ankara, endangering a ceasefire there, Russian news agencies and MEMO reported on Sunday. The strikes without a heads-up in the…

Russia accused the United States Sunday of having “compromised” a fragile ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib by launching a missile strike against extremist leaders there. The Americans hit the region “without…

The cease-fire that was declared recently by the Syrian army in the last major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib is “temporary,” Syria’s presidential advisor Buthaina Shabaan said. Local media outlets cited Shabaan on…

Russia’s military said the United States had mounted air strikes in Syria’s Idlib without forewarning Moscow or Ankara, endangering a ceasefire there, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday. The strikes without a heads-up in the…

At least 40 jihadist leaders were killed Saturday in Syria after a missile attack targeted their meeting in the northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor said. "A missile attack targeted a meeting held by the leaders of Hurras al-Deen,…