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Hospital hit as fighting in northwestern Syria strains truce, leaving at least 13 dead
Syrian government forces and insurgents exchanged a barrage of rockets on Sunday in the country's northwest that killed at least 13 people and hit a government-run hospital, activists and government media reported. The violence strained a fragile months-old truce negotiated between Russia and Turkey that ...
Floods hit over 40,000 displaced people living in northwest Syria camps: U.N.
More than 40,000 displaced people in northwestern Syria have seen their camps flooded by heavy rains in the past three days, a United Nations spokesman said Tuesday. Around 14 camps were affected in the northwestern province of Idlib, David Swanson of the U.N. Office for ...
Assad and Russian forces intensify attacks on last Syria rebel bastion, despite truce
The Syrian army aided by Russian warplanes shelled rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel bastion in the country, rebels, rescuers and residents said on Wednesday. Rebels who have fought to topple President Bashar Assad ...
Al-Qaida-linked jihadis kill at least 33 Assad regime ranks in Syria despite truce, monitor says
At least 33 pro-regime fighters were killed Sunday in attacks mounted by jihadi groups near Idlib province, in the deadliest day in six months for loyalist forces, a monitor said. Twenty-seven fighters were killed in two attacks by Ansar al-Tawhid jihadis, the Syrian Observatory for ...
Assad regime airstrikes up sharply in rebel-held northwest Syria despite truce: monitors
Airstrikes have been stepped up against rebel-held northwestern Syria, the last major bastion of opponents of President Bashar Assad, prompting thousands of civilians to flee the town of Khan Sheikhoun, war monitors said on Tuesday. The area near the Turkish frontier is under a cease-fire ...
Twin bombings kill 17 in Syria's Idlib, war monitor group says
A double bomb attack in Syria's jihadi-held city of Idlib on Monday killed 17 people, including four children, a war monitor said. The first blast was caused by a bomb planted under a car in the main city of the Idlib region, the Syrian Observatory ...
Russia and Turkey agree on decisive action in Syria's Idlib, news agency RIA reports
Russia and Turkey agreed on Monday that they needed to take decisive measures to stabilize the situation in Syria's Idlib province after talks between the two country's defense ministers, Russia's RIA news agency reported. The announcement, made after talks between Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ...
Syrian opposition sees window for political solution after eight years of civil war
Syria now has a good opportunity to reach a political solution to its devastating eight-year war as cease-fires have brought calm to many areas of the country, Syria's chief opposition negotiator said Saturday. "I think now that we have an opportunity, because nearly in Syria ...
Jihadis are making ground in the Syrian rebel bastion of Idlib, monitor says
Islamic jihadis inched forward in Syria's last major opposition bastion Wednesday as a deal with rival rebels saw them expand their control to three-quarters of the stronghold, a monitor said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is led by jihadis of Syria's former al-Qaida affiliate, has been ...
Syrian jihadis push forward into Turkish-backed rebel buffer zone enclaves
A jihadi assault gained ground on Tuesday against Turkish-backed rebels in northwest Syria, edging closer to front-lines with government forces, a rebel official and a war monitor said. The advance raises questions about the fate of September's demilitarization deal between Turkey and Russia, which staved ...
50 killed as Syria clashes between rebels and jihadis intensify, spread to Idlib
Clashes between jihadis and rebels in northwestern Syria have killed almost 50 people over two days, a war monitor said Wednesday. Clashes flared Tuesday between al-Qaida-linked coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and an alliance of rebel groups in western Aleppo province. On Wednesday the fighting spread ...
Pentagon warns Russia and Assad against tampering with site of alleged Syria chemical attack
The Pentagon warned Russia on Tuesday against interfering with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's regime-held city of Aleppo. Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has accused armed groups of carrying out a "toxic gas" attack Saturday that left dozens of people ...
