Turkey edges toward direct conflict with Russia-backed Syria as talks fail to halt assault
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now "a matter of time" after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault. Turkish troops have already ...
At least 20 civilians were killed on Sunday as Syrian regime forces were poised to retake a key motorway connecting Damascus to second city Aleppo, after weeks of battles in the rebel-held Idlib region, a monitor said. The regime and its Russian ally have been ...
Syria regime forces poised to enter key rebel hub as Russia bombs escape route
Syrian regime forces were poised Monday to enter Maaret al-Numan, a town of symbolic and strategic importance in the country's last major opposition bastion that is deserted after months of bombardment. Maaret al-Numan is a strategic prize lying on the M5 highway linking Damascus to ...
Russian airstrikes in Syria kill 15 civilians as humanitarian crisis deepens, monitor says
Russian airstrikes killed at least 15 civilians Tuesday in northwestern Syria, as renewed violence tightened the noose around the country's last major rebel-held bastion and deepened an already dire humanitarian crisis. Retaliatory rocket attacks blamed on rebels and jihadis killed three more civilians in the ...
Russian airstrikes kill seven civilians in northwest Syria's Aleppo province despite truce: monitor
At least seven civilians, including five children, were killed Monday in airstrikes on northwest Syria by regime ally Russia despite a truce declared by Moscow, a war monitor said. The raids hit several villages held by jihadis and rebels in the western countryside of Aleppo ...
59 fighters killed in northwest Syria clashes between regime forces and insurgents
Clashes between regime loyalists and insurgents in rebel-held northwest Syria killed 59 combatants on Tuesday, a war monitor said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadi group led by Syria's former al-Qaida affiliate, has since January controlled most of Idlib province as well as parts of ...
'Terrorist rocket attack' kills six civilians in Syria's Aleppo: state media
Rockets fired by jihadis Sunday killed six civilians and wounded eight others in the government-held northern city of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported. It said two neighborhoods were struck in the "terrorist rocket attack" and that one rocket hit the municipal building in the ...
U.S. says it targeted al-Qaida in northwest Syria in first such attack in two years
The United States said Monday it had carried out a strike against al-Qaida-linked jihadis in northwestern Syria, its first such operation there in two years. On another front in Syria's complex eight-year civil war, Israeli airstrikes killed 15 people including civilians late Sunday, a monitor ...
Syria evacuations resume, bringing Damascus-area town under Assad's control
The last rebel fighters have left the Syrian town of Zabadani near Damascus as part of a reciprocal evacuation deal for four besieged towns that had been interrupted after a bomb attack hit one convoy, state media and a war monitor said on Wednesday. Thousands ...
Western media peddles distorted view of Aleppo
Much of the coverage that the Western media has run on eastern Aleppo is propaganda produced produced by the rebels.
Bus torchings cloud Aleppo evacuation effort as Russia threatens to veto U.N. resolution for access
Convoys of evacuees traveled from a rebel-held area of Aleppo and from two Shiite villages besieged by insurgents on Monday after a days-long stand-off. Dozens of buses carrying thousands of people from Aleppo's tiny rebel zone reached insurgent areas of countryside to the west of ...
After fall of Aleppo, Syria's Assad still far from regaining his country
When President Bashar Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state. The fall of ...
