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The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday over 60,000 people, mostly civilians, had flooded out of Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria since a final assault to capture it began over two months ago. SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel told journalists that 29,600 people,...
Thousands of people are believed to remain inside the Islamic State group's last sliver of territory in eastern Syria, a US-backed force said Sunday citing evacuees, hampering the operation to crush the jihadists. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been trying to flush jihadists...
Thousands of people are believed to remain inside the Islamic State group's last sliver of territory in eastern Syria, a US-backed force said Sunday citing evacuees, hampering the operation to crush the jihadists. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been trying to flush...
The family of Khaled Mustafa thought they had found safety in New Zealand after fleeing the bloody chaos of Syria only a few months ago. But he and his 16-year-old son Hamza became victims of hatred when they were shot while praying at the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch on Friday....
US-backed forces battled Islamic State group fighters Saturday as the holdout jihadists clung onto the last dregs of their crumbling "caliphate" in eastern Syria. For weeks, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have battled to crush IS fighters holed up in a small riverside hamlet in...
War is personal. And in Syria, after eight years of a grinding conflict, there are as many stories of loss, dispossession and desperate hope as there are people. What started as peaceful protests in 2011 asking for government change turned into one of the cruelest modern wars and left a...
US-backed forces battled Islamic State group fighters overnight as the jihadists Saturday clung onto their crumbling bastion in eastern Syria. "Clashes broke out again last night and have continued since," said Adnane Afrine, spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all parties involved in the Syrian conflict to maintain their commitments and uphold the ceasefire arrangement in the country’s northern Idlib province. In a written statement released on Friday, Guterres said: “I am extremely concerned about...
The fate of Syrians and their country changed forever over the course of a few fateful days in March 2011. The revolutionaries' initial demands of freedom, justice and dignity still feel distant for Syria's millions displaced at home and abroad. Eight years on, Syrians have...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Syrian women activists established a Women's Social Club in the Syrian refugee camps in the Lebanese border town of Arsal, seeking is to handle and solve the women’s problems and obstacles in the camps. The club includes 15 Syrian activists, 2 Syrian...
France said Friday it had brought back five young children from camps in northern Syria, but repeated its position that adult citizens who had joined Daesh (ISIS) abroad should stay where they were and face justice. The children were either orphans or unaccompanied in the camps, the...
Daesh (ISIS) is down to its last few hundred fighters and less than a square kilometer of land in a battle for its last Syrian stronghold, although it may have 15,000-20,000 adherents in Syria and Iraq, U.S. envoy James Jeffrey said on Friday. "We are just about finished with the campaign...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced Thursday the appointment of Khawla Matar of Bahrain as the Deputy Special Envoy for Syria. Ms. Matar succeeds Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy of Egypt, to whom the Secretary‑General reiterates his gratitude for his efforts in the search...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, a former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells new torture memo about women prisoners. After a 15-day shift in the hospital, Jihan, 28, was heading her flat in the Rukneddine district. But the exhausted woman was obliged to wait for long time at an...
Trudging up an ochre cliff-face in eastern Syria, veiled women, wounded men and dusty children make a final journey out of the Islamic State group's crumbling redoubt. Under the drizzle of a dark brewing sky, their exodus Thursday from the last dregs of the extremist group's "caliphate" in...
The United Nations won almost $7 bln in aid pledges for Syria on Thursday, overcoming fatigue among donors after eight years of civil war and sidestepping divisions over how to deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The emergency aid pledges came at a conference at which Western donors...
Islamic State militants accompanied by women and children surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in their hundreds on Thursday as the jihadists lost ground to a U.S.-backed assault on their last shred of territory, the SDF said. Many of the men could be seen limping as they...
The United States announced Thursday that it will be providing more than $397 million in additional humanitarian aid to further assist relief efforts responding to the Syria crisis. The new funds will be used to assist non-governmental organizations like the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR)...
Islamic State militants accompanied by women and children surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in their hundreds on Thursday as the jihadists lost ground to a U.S.-backed assault on their last shred of territory, the SDF said. Many of the men could be seen limping as they...
The death toll in Syria's northwestern Idlib province has risen to 15 following Syrian regime forces launched air strikes in the rebel-held area, the Syria Civil Defence said on Thursday. Along with artillery barrages, Russian warplanes attacked central Idlib and its rural outskirts...
