The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side [ More … ]
A Syrian war monitor has claimed US-led air strikes on IS-held Raqqa has cost 59 civilians lives in three days, including 21 children. US-led coalition air strikes aimed at dislodging Islamic State militants from the [ More … ]
The head of powerful Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah said on Sunday that it is time for the world to accept that Assad will stay on as Syria’s leader. The head of powerful Lebanese Shia group [ More … ]
The Assad regime has dropped no less than 244 barrel bombs in supposedly conflict-free zones in Syria, according to a rights group. The brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad dropped at least 244 barrel bombs in [ More … ]
Speaking in eastern Turkey’s Malatya, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey remains determined to launch ‘new moves’ akin to its foray into northern Syria in August 2016. Referring to Daesh, he said the situation in [ More … ]
Representatives from Turkey, Russia and Iran – guarantor powers in the Astana talks – kicked off the sixth round of a high-level trilateral meeting in Tehran, in a bid to reach a consensus on de-escalation zones in Syria, on [ More … ]
A Tunisian parliamentary delegation embarked on a nine-day visit to the Syrian capital of Damascus on 4 August, for meeting with Syrian senior officials, according to Tunisia news website. A delegation of Tunisian MPs Friday [ More … ]
Turkey is preparing to ramp up its military presence in Syria, as Kurdish forces continue their advance in the north and an al-Qaeda-linked affiliate kicks out Ankara’s rebel allies. Turkey is preparing to ramp up [ More … ]
IS is losing ground fast in Syria to separate campaigns waged by Russian-backed Syrian army and by US-backed Kurdish forces and their allies Syrian government and allied forces have taken the last major town in [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* Turkey has long since expressed its thoughts and attitude regarding Syria and Iraq. Ankara time after time stated what sort of a future the sectarian approach of the Maliki regime in Baghdad [ More … ]
Turkish and Russian forces will be deployed in Syria’s Idlib region as part of a ‘de-escalation’ agreement brokered by Russia, Turkey’s presidential spokesperson said on Thursday. Turkish and Russian forces will be deployed in Syria’s [ More … ]
Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın on July 31 criticized recent statements by Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy of the anti-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) coalition, which linked Turkey to terror groups in northwestern [ More … ]
Syrian free speech activist and open software developer Bassel Kharabil was executed by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, The Jimmy Wales Foundation reported on Tuesday. “Today we received the horrific news that Bassel was executed immediately after his disappearance [ More … ]
UN says food and non-food aid delivered to 7,200 needy people, days after further aid deliveries in Eastern Ghouta A region besieged by government forces east of Syria’s capital on Sunday received UN aid for [ More … ]
Thousands of refugees on the Syria-Lebanon are set to be transferred to Syria’s Idlib province under the second phase of the ceasefire deal struck between Hezbollah and Nusra Front. Thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon [ More … ]
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