Syria’s Bashar al -Assad regime is gradually losing border crossings across the country and as of now only the ones along the Lebanese border that it controls are said to be open to traffic both ways, sources tell The Anadolu Agency. Most of the...
Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State on Friday have seized more neighborhoods in the vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus, a bid to capture the group's first major foothold close to Bashar al-Assad's seat of power, activists and monitoring group...
Syria's Islamist rebels, who captured northern city of Idlib last Saturday, said number of procedures were taken to secure civilians, including the Christian community in the captured city. Fatah Army, an alliance of Islamist groups, has formed a security committee...
At least 9 people were killed in al-Ferdous neighborhood of Aleppo on Thursday when Syrian regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on one of the most crowded areas in the northern city, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Medics of al-Ansari field hospital confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl...
Southern Front rebels, including powerful Ahrar al-Sham group, on Thursday have taken full control of Syria’s border line with Jordan, rebel commander said. Early Thursday, Islamist rebels and Free Syrian Army fighters have seized control of...
(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Clashes between the Islamic State and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) still underway since Wednesdsy near the town of Tal-Tamer in the northern province of Hasakah, activists said. Key Kurdish militia PYD has made...
Tunisia's foreign minister says that diplomatic relations with Syria will be restored at a consular level, following a long hiatus that began during the Arab Spring. Taieb Baccouche told journalists Thursday that Syria had responded positively to the suggestion to restore...
Turkey will soon deport nine British citizens who have been detained for trying to illegally cross into Syria, Turkish officials said late Wednesday. The nine include four children and two female British citizens, the officials added. Earlier, Turkish officials told The Anadolu Agency that...
Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday, a bid to capture the group's first major foothold close to President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power. Islamic State fighters already control...
A group of Syrian opposition fighters called the "Southern Front" have taken control of the Nasib border crossing along the Syrian border with Jordan, the rebel group announced Wednesday. According to a statement, the opposition fighters seized the border gate in Nasib town in southern...
Syria's Islamist rebels, who captured northern city of Idlib last Saturday, said number of procedures were taken to secure the Christian community in the captured city. Rebel Commanders of Ahrar al-Sham movement told Zaman al-Wasl that Fatah Army, an alliance of Islamist...
The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front indicated on Wednesday that a Syrian city captured from the government in recent days would be ruled according to Islamic sharia law but the group would not seek to monopolize power there. Nusra Front's leader, Abu Mohamad al-Golani, also said...
Islamic State fighters on Wednesday have seized control of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus, AFP reported.
Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement, in statement posted online, said number of Syrian regime soldiers were killed after a successful operation carried out late on Tuesday in the Southern suburbs of Damascus. The key Islamist rebel group said it had planted mines...
(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fighters of The Democratic Union Party (PYD) have expelled many families from their houses in Hasakah countryside, including a family of a commander in the F ree Syrian Army, who was killed by...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) confirmed that 3 Palestinian sisters died under torture by Syrian intelligence in Branch 235, known as Palestine branch . The SHRC reported that Amal Saad Eddin (24...
International donors have pledged $3.8 billion to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Syria , United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at a summit in the Kuwaiti capital on Tuesday. The United Nations is seeking to help 18 million people inside Syria and those...
Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 people in a Syria n village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria. Syrian state television put the number...
At least 55 people have been killed in Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held city of Idlib north of Syria since an alliance of Islamist groups have seized the city last Saturday for the first time in Syria's civil war, activists said. Activists said among the...
Free Syrian Army officers have joined key I slamist rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs under leadership of Zahran Alloush, commander said in video statement Monday. Number of Syrian army defectors in a remarkable move have formed a new military council in...
