The Syrian army has given dozens of families “safe passage” out of a besieged area east of Damascus, state news agency SANA said on Tuesday. “Syrian army units gave safe passage to dozens of families from Douma and Zibdin in Eastern Ghouta,” said SANA, referring to a rebel-held area that[…]
At least 10 children have been killed after two schools were hit in a series of air strikes carried out by the Syrian government in Damascus and villages in the Idlib province, sources say. Military jets dropped barrel bombs on a school in the town of Safohan in Idlib province[…]
At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. An “unusually high proportion,” or about one-fourth, of those killed were international journalists, though the overwhelming[…]
Two senior Islamic State group leaders were killed in U.S. and coalition airstrikes in northern Iraq over the last week, U.S. officials said Thursday, as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel approved new orders for several hundred troops to deploy to Iraq to train Iraqi forces. According to one of the U.S.[…]
The bodies of 230 people killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have been found in a mass grave uncovered by their relatives in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, a monitoring group has said. The discovery brings the number of members of the Shaitat tribe killed[…]
The Syrian army has lost control of two strategic bases in the northwestern province of Idlib to al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and other rebel factions following heavy fighting, a monitoring group said. Al-Nusra Front, in coordination with rebel groups of Jund al-Aqsa and Ahrar al-Sham, seized Hamidiyeh and Wadi al-Deif army[…]
US Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday urged lawmakers to adopt a new legal authorization to underpin military action against Islamic State militants for at least three years. But during a heated debate, the top US diplomat came under fire from Republicans and Democrats who argued that if President Barack Obama[…]
Unidentified gunmen have killed three Turkish soldiers on the Syria-Turkey border in Sanliurfa province, Turkish media said. The governor of Sanliurfa told the semi-official Anatolia news agency that the soldiers on guard duty on the border in Ceylanpinar district were shot dead early on Tuesday. Izzettin Kucuk said it was[…]
Syria has accused Israel of carrying out air strikes against two government-held areas in Damascus province, one of them near the Damascus international airport. There was no immediate reaction to Sunday’s report from the Israeli authorities. “The Israeli enemy attacked Syria by targeting two safe areas in Damascus province, namely[…]
Syria accused Israel of bombing its main international airport on Sunday as the UN announced talks with rebel leaders on a ceasefire in its war-battered second city of Aleppo. The accusation came hours ahead of an appeal by humanitarian organisations Monday for countries to take in around 180,000 refugees as the[…]
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