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Syria's largest Kurdish party has said it plans to form an transitional administration. The administration would rule Kurdish-majority areas in the northeast until the broader conflict is over. Kurdish groups in northern Syria have…

The dead include: 27 civilians, 26 rebel fighters, 37 regular soldiers, 9 unidentified rebel fighters, 4 ISIS fighters, 23 combatants from the NDF and popular committees and at least 21 non-Syrian fighters from the ISIS, al-Nusra and…

Damascus: A suicide car bomb went off by a regime and pro-regime militia checkpoint in the area between the Tadamun neighbourhood and Bebila town (footage); reports of dead and injured. Clashes took place afterwards between the regime and…

Hasakah province: 5 rebels were killed by clashes with the YPG by the city of Qamishli. Clashes took place after midnight between the YPG and rebels by the villages of al-Sheybaniya, al-thaher and al-Uweiniya. The YPG took over the…

Dera'a province: The airforce carried out 4 air raids on areas in A'tman town and an air raid on the Seida town. 1 man from the Nahta town was killed by regime bombardment on the town. 1 man, 1 woman and 1 child from the Qarfa town…

Idlib province: Several mortar shells fell near the Idlib city with reports of injuries. Areas in the Mar'iyan town and the M'arshamsha village were bombarded by regular forces which led to several injuries. A doctor from the M'arat…

Damascus province: Initial reports that 5 children were killed by a mortar shell that fell on a school bus in the Bab Sharqi area of Old Damascus. 16 were injured by mortar bombardment on Bab Sharqi and al-Qasa'. A mortar shell fell…

Aleppo province: An explosion shook the Kobani city which is inhabited mainly by Syrian Kurds, initial information indicates that a suicide bomber blew himself up in a detonated vehicle near the Kurdish Red Crescent building which led to…

Deir Izzor province: Clashes broke out yesterday between 2 Arabian tribes in the al-Mayadin area which led to the Shari'a council to storm the houses of the gunmen from both tribes, confiscate their weapons and detain several of the…

The simple symbol has become a byword for neutrality and humanity, a mark of compassion amid some of the worst suffering that human beings can inflict on one another. The insignia of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement…