The leader of the Nusra Front, one of Syria’s most powerful rebel groups, has said that his group’s main mission is to dislodge the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and that it has no agenda to target the West unless provoked. “We are only here to accomplish one mission, to[…]
Syrian government forces reportedly launched 17 airstrikes in and around Palmyra on Monday morning, following a Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) report that says IS has executed at least 217 people in the past nine days in the ancient city of Palmyra. The Observatory said on Sunday that it[…]
The United States and Turkey have agreed “in principle” to give air support to some forces from Syria’s mainstream opposition, Turkey’s foreign minister said, in what if confirmed could mark an expansion of US involvement in the conflict. There was no immediate comment from US officials on the assertion —[…]
Fighters from the Islamic State group entered the northern city limits of ancient Palmyra Wednesday, seizing a state security building after intense fighting, a monitor said. “The jihadists are once again in the north of Tadmur, after taking over the state security building,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian[…]
Investigators and lawyers said Wednesday that they have built war crimes cases against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and key institutions of his government with documents smuggled out of the country. The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) has already built three cases against the regime for crimes against humanity[…]
More than 36,000 newborn Syrian babies in Lebanon are stateless, with no identification documents, the UN refugee agency has told Al Jazeera. The registration data of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees indicates that, as of the end of March 2015, nearly 51,000 Syrian children were born in Lebanon[…]
Patients at a Gift of the Givers run hospital in Darkoush in northern Syria will be relocated to Turkey, following an airstrike on Monday. Medical staff and patients were jolted by the missile, which was fired 300 metres away from the Ar Rahma Hospital. While there were no injuries or[…]
A hospital in Syria run by South African charity, Gift of the Givers, has been bombed in an airstrike, it was reported on Tuesday. Government warplanes reportedly fired a missile into the field hospital, said website Shaam News Network. Gift of the Givers’ Fekri Shaban told eNCA that the organisation[…]
Rescuers have pulled a 101-year-old man and three women alive from his ruined home a week after Nepal’s earthquake claimed at least 7,250 lives, as the government warned that the death toll will climb “much higher”. Funchu Tamang was rescued from the rubble of his house with only minor injuries[…]
Fighters of Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate and its allies have overrun the last major government-held city in the northwestern province of Idlib, according to the monitoring group. The fighters launched their attack on Jisr al-Shughur on Thursday, seeking to capitalise on their capture of the provincial capital last month and open[…]
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