A group of 14 Palestinian factions said Thursday they backed a joint military operation with the Syrian government to expel Islamic State group from the Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus. After a meeting of the factions in the Syrian capital, PLO official Ahmed Majdalani said the groups supported a coordinated[…]
The toll from two alleged Islamic State (IS) group car bombings overnight of rebels in Syria’s Aleppo province has risen to at least 32 people, a monitor said on Wednesday. Three local commanders were killed in one of the attacks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, describing the incidents[…]
A military operation is necessary to expel Islamic State militants from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in south Damascus, Syria’s reconciliation minister said on Wednesday. “The priority now is to expel and defeat militants and terrorists in the camp. Under the present circumstances, a military solution is necessary,” minister Ali[…]
Fresh fighting was taking place on Tuesday in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, with those fleeing battles with the Islamic State (ISIS) militia reporting a dire humanitarian situation. Refugees said they had run out of food and water before taking[…]
A senior Palestinian official said Monday he was headed to Damascus for talks on helping residents inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, parts of which have been overrun by the Islamic State group. Hundreds of families have been evacuated from the camp in a southern neighborhood of Damascus after IS militants[…]
Islamic State fighters on Tuesday killed over 40 people, mostly civilians, in an attack on a central Syrian village, opposition activists and Syrian state TV said. The assault on the government-held village of Mabuja was the latest atrocity by the group, which last week released a video showing its radicals[…]
A new video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday shows its fighters cutting off the heads of eight men said to be Shiite Muslims. The video posted on social media said the men were beheaded in the central Syrian province of Hama. The video could not be immediately[…]
The Gift of the Givers managed to reunite a 9 year old Syrian child with her mother on Friday morning, after being apart for three years. The girl Sundus Ali Besheer was separated from her mother Khalide in February 2012 at the tender age of 6 years as a result[…]
Syrian insurgents captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria on Sunday, activists said. The Idlib Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the helicopter went down near Jabal al-Zawiya, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the town[…]
The death toll in twin attacks that targeted Kurds celebrating their New Year in north-eastern Syria late Friday has climbed to 45, a monitoring group said. The blasts occurred in the province of al-Hassakeh, which borders Turkey and Iraq. It initially left 33 dead and dozens wounded, according to the[…]
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