The Islamic State radicals group launched a major assault on Kurdish forces in north-eastern Syria overnight, with “dozens” of fighters killed on both sides, a monitoring group said Wednesday. About 1,000 Islamic State fighters moved on Kurdish positions near the town of Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border, the Syrian[…]
At least 30 fighters and civilian oil workers were killed when the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group carried out an airstrike against a Syrian oil refinery. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the strike hit a refinery on the western outskirts of Tel Abyad, on Syria’s[…]
A US-led coalition air strike in Syria hit an oil refinery run by the Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL) group near the border with Turkey, killing 30 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said. Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the UK-based monitoring network, said on Sunday the dead[…]
An air strike by Syrian government forces has killed a senior commander of al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, the group and state media have said. The SANA state news agency said Abu Hammam al-Shami, also known as al-Farouq al-Suri, was killed in a special army operation in Idlib[…]
A large explosion struck a Syrian intelligence building in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, setting off heavy clashes between insurgents and government troops, two activist groups said. The Aleppo Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the massive blast hit a branch of the[…]
The global chemical weapons watchdog said in a new report that it has destroyed two Syrian chemical weapons facilities and expects the destruction of all 12 facilities to be completed this summer. Ahmet Uzumcu, head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said in his monthly report to[…]
Two humanitarian workers involved with relief efforts in civil-war torn Syria, have detailed some of the atrocities witness in the troubled Middle Eastern country. Both are in the South Africa as guests of the Gift of the Givers (GOTG), seeking not only to shed light on the current situation, but[…]
The Syrian refugee crisis is reaching a tipping point as humanitarian appeals remain under funded, and neighbouring countries are struggling to keep up with the flood of refugees, a UN official told the UN Security Council Thursday. Antonio Guterres, UN high commissioner for refugees, said that the international community needs[…]
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday it has identified nearly 1,500 sites where the Syrian government has carried out indiscriminate air attacks over the past year using barrel bombs and other improvised weapons that have killed or injured thousands of people. The human rights group accused President Bashar Assad of lying[…]
Islamic State radicals have abducted at least 70 Christians, including women and children, after overrunning a string of villages in northeastern Syria, two activist groups said Tuesday. The Sunni rebels, who follow a radical interpretation of Islam, have repeatedly targeted religious and ethnic minorities in Syria and Iraq since seizing[…]
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