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Exodus from Hasakeh as Syria hunts jihadists

(AFP)- Raids by Syrian forces hunting suspected Islamic State infiltrators in the northeast town of Hasakeh have sparked an exodus of more than 60,000 civilians in three days, a monitor said Monday. Hasakeh is split between zones controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's forces,...

32 killed in Syria's Daraa and Aleppo

(AFP)- At least 22 people were killed Friday when a car bomb exploded in front of a mosque in Daraa province of southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Among the dead in the blast in the rebel-controlled town of Namar were a woman and a child, the...

Damascus facing daily rebel mortar and rocket fire

After a long period of relative calm, Syria's capital is coming under daily mortar and rocket fire from rebels seeking to make the regime ease its attacks on areas they hold near Damascus. "It is in response to regime air raids on rebel districts around Damascus," said Rami...