The United States and its allies have conducted 20 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria since Wednesday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Thursday. Four air strikes in Syria targeted tactical units, artillery and vehicles near Al Hasakah, Ar Raqqah and Mar'a. In Iraq,...
Syrian government forces used newly arrived Russian warplanes to bombard Islamic State fighters in Aleppo province in northern Syria, Reuters said on Thursday, in an attempt to break a siege on a nearby air base. Russia is bolstering its ally Damascus with military aid that U.S. officials...
Hundreds of Syrians gather at dusk for a passenger ferry from Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli to Turkey, the next step on their long trek toward what they hope will be a better, safer life in western Europe. For more than four years, Lebanon has drawn refugees fleeing Syria but...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) All difficult circumstances and hard living conditions from poverty, unemployment, bad weather have gathered to harden the life of people in the countryside of Hasaka, especially in the days of Eid Adha, beside school opening time, added to unbearable rules of...
