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Aleppo evacuation halted over Shiite villages

A military news service run by Lebanon's pro-Damascus Hezbollah group said the evacuation of eastern Aleppo had been halted Friday partly due to a failure to evacuate wounded people from two Shiite villages besieged by rebels in Idlib. It also cited previous reasons given for the suspension...

Urfa Refugee Camp: True Tragedy

(Eqtsad)- Around 30,000 Syrians from the provinces of Latakia, Idlib and Aleppo live in Urfa Tel Hamoud Camp 1, close to the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn but inside Turkish territory. The camp residents experience terrible conditions with the absence of any local or international supervision of...

Ansar al-Sham merges with powerful Jaish al-Islam

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Battalion of “Ansar al-Sham, key rebel unit in the coastal Latakia province said Thursday it had merged with powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel group. The online statement said the new step come in solidarity with people and fighters in Aleppo, and a response to people’s calls to...

Red Cross evacuates 3,000 civilians from Aleppo

Some 3,000 civilians and more than 40 wounded people, including children, were evacuated from east Aleppo Thursday in two evacuations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement. "Many more" rotations of buses and ambulances would be needed in coming days, said...

Second round of evacuations from Aleppo completed

A second round of evacuations from Syria's eastern Aleppo was completed Thursday, a Turkish official said, as part of an effort that Turkey has said could see 100,000 people brought out of the city. No further information about the second round of evacuations was immediately available....

Pro-regime areas fed up army calls to volunteer

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It seems that bringing volunteers to the regime's newly-formed militia, the Fifth Corps, is still stumbling. Regime did not take a headquarter for it although more than 3 weeks have passed on the launch of the project whose members will take monthly salaries tripling those...

UN: Syrian regime must prevent reprisals in Aleppo

U.N. war crimes investigators said Wednesday the Syrian government bore the main responsibility for preventing any attacks and reprisals in eastern Aleppo and that it must hold to account any troops or allied forces committing violations. In a statement, the United Nations Commission of...