Syrian regime opens 'humanitarian corridor' for civilians to exit besieged rebel-held area
Syrian authorities opened Thursday a "humanitarian corridor" so civilians from a besieged, rebel-held area in the north of Hama province can leave and move to parts of the country controlled by the government, the Foreign Ministry said. Government warplanes, meanwhile, carried out an airstrike close ...
Russian-backed Syrian army poised to take key Idlib town hit by sarin in 2017 after rebels withdraw
Syrian government forces look set to recover a strategic town that has been in rebel hands since 2014 in a major Russian-backed offensive into the opposition's last major stronghold. An organization that monitors the war and a pro-Damascus military source said insurgents had withdrawn from ...
Airstrikes targeted a Turkish army convoy inside a rebel-held part of northwestern Syria on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding 12 others, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. Syria, however, said the Turkish convoy was carrying ammunition to rebels who have lost ground this month ...
Aided by Russian airstrikes, Syria regime forces battle jihadis for key Idlib town and highway
Syrian pro-regime forces fought pitched battles Sunday with insurgents as they inched closer to a jihadi-run town in the northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "fierce clashes" between loyalist forces, jihadis and allied rebels were ...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels counterattack after regime forces advance in Idlib
A rebel group backed by Turkey will send reinforcements to the front lines of the last major rebel enclave in northern Syria to oppose a government offensive, it said on Thursday. Over the past week, the Syrian army has advanced toward the town of Khan ...
Syrian rebels shoot down regime warplane in Idlib and capture pilot
Rebels shot down a Syrian warplane in the opposition stronghold of Idlib province on Wednesday as Russian-backed government forces closed in on a strategically important town, rebel sources and a war monitor said. A pilot who ejected from the plane was captured, according to the ...
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 ...
Syria regime gains ground in deadly Idlib push, takes key town: monitor
Syrian regime forces seized a town on the edge of Idlib on Sunday, a monitor said, in their first ground advance in the province since an escalation on the jihadist-dominated enclave more than three months ago. The region of northwestern Syria, which is home to ...
Renewed fighting in northwest Syria after a brief cease-fire has triggered "total panic," a top U.N. official said Thursday, warning that a possible government offensive in the area was "like playing with fire. The jihadi-run bastion of Idlib, the last major opposition stronghold in Syria, ...
Seven civilians killed in Syria after failed Idlib truce, monitor group says
Pro-government forces and opposition fighters exchanged fire in northwest Syria on Tuesday, killing seven civilians, a war monitor said, after Damascus scrapped a ceasefire. A Friday truce was supposed to protect 3 million people living in the Idlib region after three months of deadly bombardment. But ...
Syria regime and Russia resume Idlib airstrikes after scrapping truce
Damascus and Russia resumed air strikes on Idlib in northwest Syria on Monday, a monitor said, scrapping a cease-fire for the jihadi-run bastion and accusing the regime's opponents of targeting a Russian air base. The northwestern region, which hosts some 3 million people, is one ...
Cease-fire gives wary Syrians in Idlib respite from airstrikes but shelling continues
Shopkeepers and residents in Syria's Idlib city have found relief from airstrikes but remain wary after a cease-fire halted fierce government bombing against the rebel foothold. For three months, an army offensive backed by Russia has killed at least 400 people in northwest Syria and ...
