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UN reports Palestinian population decline in Syria

The U.N.'s Palestinian relief agency says Syria's Palestinian refugee population has fallen by one-fifth since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011. UNRWA Director Pierre Kraehenbuehl said Friday there are 440,000 refugees in Syria, compared to 560,000 in the country before the war....

Syrian regime forces take back areas near Hama - monitor

 The Russian-backed Syrian army has recaptured 16 villages lost to insurgents last week near the city of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. Syrian government forces have been counter-attacking in the area that is of critical importance to President Bashar...

ISIS claims responsibility for March 15 Damascus bombings

 ISIS claimed responsibility on Thursday for two suicide attacks that killed at least 31 people in Damascus on March 15. The group made the claim in its weekly online newspaper al-Nabaa. The newspaper said the two suicide bombers, identified by the group as Abu Musa al Golani and...

Hama: regime warplanes conduct second gas attack in a week

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes pounded rebel-held areas north of the city of Hama on Thursday in an escalation of airstrikes, a rebel official and activists said, as regime forces fought to reverse the rebels' biggest assault in months. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a...