French president Francois Hollande visited Iraq on January 2, to visit the French soldiers fighting alongside coalition forces in Iraq and talk about the danger of terrorism. Hollande, who was traveling with French defense minister Jean-Yves [ More … ]
ISIS fighters shot down a military plane belonging to Assad regime in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Sunday. “A warplane belonging to the Assad regime was [ More … ]
In an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, Russia has accused the US of defending ISIS group in Syria after the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes reportedly killed dozens of Assad regime’s soldiers near Deir Ezzor in Syria. The United States [ More … ]
An emergency U.N. Security Council meeting was conducted later on Saturday after the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes reportedly killed dozens of Assad regime’s soldiers near Deir Ezzor in Syria. U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a position for Assad regime [ More … ]
U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a position for Assad regime forces at Jebel Tharda near Deir Ezzor airport on Saturday, killing dozens of Assad regime’s soldiers, Russia and a war monitor said, paving the way for [ More … ]
US-backed fighters in Syria have accused the Islamic State (ISIS) group of taking more than 2,000 people hostage, and using them as human shields, as they retreated from the northern city of Manbij. The Syrian Democratic [ More … ]
US-backed militisa have taken control of 40 percent of Manbij after new advances against areas controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS) in the key Syrian city near the Turkish border. Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), with [ More … ]
US-backed Kurdish militias have given the Islamic State (ISIS) group 48 hours to leave their stronghold of Manbij in Syria, two days after US-coalition airstrikes killed 120 civilians in the besieged city. Thursday’s announcement comes [ More … ]
Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting areas in Syria controlled by the Islamic State group killed at least 15 civilians on Monday, two Syrian activist groups said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said [ More … ]
Iran will never coordinate with the United States in Syria and other regional conflicts, supreme leader Ali Khamenei said in remarks published on his website Sunday. “We don’t want such a coordination as their main [ More … ]
The US-led fight against the ISIS in Iraq and Syria could be completed within 14 months, a senior US official told skeptical lawmakers Tuesday. Some 65 countries are engaged at varying levels in trying to [ More … ]
A new report says a U.S.-led coalition is bombing civilians to death and covering it up. The United States-led coalition that is bombing Iraq and Syria may be underreporting the civilian toll of that war [ More … ]
The Assad regime’s army advanced into Raqqa province, the capital of Islamic State terrorist group, after a major Russian-backed offensive against the militants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The offensive is [ More … ]
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