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Blazes sweep forest near Assad's hometown: media

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Huge fire broke out on Sunday night in fields of Bashar al-Assad's hometown of al-Qardaha in Coastal Latakia province, pro-regime social media accounts reported. Fire has extended to wide area of fields and forests of villages of Dwitran, Khribat al-Qalaa, Qalaa al-Mahalba,...

Cluster bomb attack kills 4 in Aleppo

Four people were killed and eight others injured in a cluster bomb attack Sunday in war-battered Aleppo city in northern Syria.  A regime warplane struck the opposition-held al-Shear district in eastern Aleppo, pro-opposition civil defense official Abdullah Nualu told Anadolu...

Regime bombs school and factory in Idlib province

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian Civil Defense in Idlib province confirmed that school in Maaret Masreen town was bombed Sunday by regime warplanes causing scores of injuries among students. Also, regime bombed Has town in southern countryside and Idlib city center which killed many and injured...

For Syria rebels, Trump win adds to uncertain fate

 On the eve of Donald Trump's election victory, members of a Western-backed Syrian rebel group met U.S. officials to ask about the outlook for arms shipments they have received to fight President Bashar al-Assad. They were told the program would continue until the end of the year, but...

Russian naval base expansion in Tartus 'underway'

The Russian Defence Ministry has begun supplying the Tartus naval base in Syria, the only Russian base in the Mediterranean Sea, with patrol boats and auxiliary equipment necessary for the base’s expansion. Russia has had a naval base in Tartus since 1977 but in October announced plans to...

Air raid hits children's hospital in Syria's Aleppo

(Al Jazeera)- An air raid has hit a children's hospital in Syria's rebel-held east Aleppo, forcing medical staff to evacuate patients, including several newborn babies still in incubators. The moment of the attack on Friday was captured by an Al Jazeera crew, including journalist Amro...

All hospitals in East Aleppo out of action

All hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes on the besieged area of the Syrian city, its health directorate said late on Friday but a war monitor said some were still working. "This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the...