Mohamed Hassan Safa, a Hezbollah field commander has been killed in Syria, days after the death of number of the party’s most senior military chiefs in Syria, Hezbollah media outlets said.
(Writing by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Amal, the 23-year-old Syrian girl was hesitant to talk about her traumatizing experience during detention in Syrian regime’s prisons. Amal joined the revolution since the beginning, despite she is from Hama, the Syrian city known of...
The United States is working to avoid the "total destruction" of Syria, and plans a meeting in the coming days with Russian, Saudi and Turkish leaders to seek an end to the conflict, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday. Washington considers that it bears the responsibility "to try and...
The military commander of the Syrian insurgent group Nour al-din al-Zinki Battalion has been killed, the group said in a statement Monday. Nasif Ismail was killed fighting in southern Aleppo, where a major ground offensive by Syrian army troops seeking to regain rebel-held...
The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants Monday, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. In desperate scenes, several thousand people, many of them Syrians fleeing war, spent the night on the muddy...
When Uruguay announced last year that it would be taking in five families fleeing Syria's devastating civil war, residents of this small town pulled together and lobbied to host one. Then in November, locals welcomed a newly arrived Merhi Alshebli, his wife and their 15...
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entered four besieged Syrian towns and villages as part of a deal agreed last month between Syria's warring sides with U.N. help, local sources and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday. A total of eight trucks...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Turkey the prospect of support for faster progress on its bid to join the European Union on Sunday in return for cooperation in stemming the flow of migrants and taking back those rejected by Europe. Speaking in Istanbul at a joint news...
At least 40 Islamic State fighters have been killed in an air strike on their convoy in the Syrian province of Hama, Reuters reported on Sunday. The attack, which took place on Saturday, also destroyed 16 vehicles in the convoy, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors...
An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition has killed Sanafi al-Nasr, a Saudi citizen and the leader of an al Qaeda offshoot called the Khorasan Group, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday. The Pentagon said al-Nasr organized routes for new recruits to travel from Pakistan to Syria through Turkey and...
(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Samah Abo Baker, a Palestinian from Syria and former journalist in “Alikhbaria” the regime's news TV, sought asylum in France a year ago, but now, she is at brink of being thrown in street because “KAD” organisation let her down and...
(Video)- Two Syrian women in Deir Ezzor province east Syria were lashed 30 times each for theft by Radical Islamic State group that claims following Sharia, according to footage posted on the social media by local activists Saturday. Activists said two local women had been accused of...
Russian planes carried out 39 sorties and hit 51 Islamic State targets over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The aircraft hit targets in Hama, Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo regions, it added, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, Fateh Aleppo, an alliance of Islamist...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Awasl- Arsal)- Nahla Ayosh, a-50-year- old widow from Qusayr in Homs’s countryside, is responsible for 5 daughters, and two granddaughters, lives in a tiny tent in Lebanese border town of Arsal after her husband and only son were killed. She told Zaman Al...
AT CHECKPOINTS across the country, Iraq’s many and various security forces cheer Russia’s arrival as an answer to their failure to turn the tide after 16 months battling the jihadists of Islamic State (IS) in north-western Iraq. “The US and its coalition did nothing,” says a policeman,...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Istanbul on Sunday desperate to secure Turkey's help in stemming the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe, but without being seen to sacrifice their human rights. Dubbed a "punch-bag" for her own party by some German media due...
Italy said Saturday that UNESCO has approved its suggestion to have the United Nation’s famous Blue Helmets protect heritage sites around the world from attacks by Islamist militants. “UNESCO has said yes to the Cultural Blue Helmets,” Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said in a statement,...
Iran is to step up its military support for the Syrian regime in the form of advice on fighting terrorism, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Saturday. Abdollahian, quoted by state television, denied that his country had fighters on the ground in the Syrian conflict....
Thousands of migrants surged into tiny Slovenia on Saturday as an alternative route opened in Europe for them after Hungary sealed its border for their free flow, adding another hurdle in their frantic flight from wars and poverty toward what they hope is a better life in Western Europe. The...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Alwaer neighborhood of the central city of Homs has almost disappeared from the scene of the Syrian revolution, especially after the beginning of the Russian attacks on countrysides of Homs, Hama, Idlib and Aleppo two weeks ago, in conjunction with the start of...
