Turkey said Syrian government forces "deliberately" attacked on Sunday a Turkish military observation post in northwestern Syria. In a statement, the defense ministry said Turkish troops responded with "heavy weapons" after the artillery attack in Idlib province. Syrian forces launched an offensive to take the last ...
Russia announces cease-fire in Syria's battered Idlib after hundreds of civilian deaths
Moscow has announced a cease-fire in Syria's northwestern Idlib province after weeks of intensified rocket fire and airstrikes by regime and Russian forces. "At Russia's initiative, with the mediation of Turkey and Russia, a cease-fire agreement was concluded in the Idlib de-escalation zone as of ...
Dozens of Syrian refugees dismantled their tents, filled trucks with belongings and left a camp they lived in for years in eastern Lebanon on Sunday after local authorities ordered them to evacuate in the aftermath of a brawl with local firefighters. Lebanese officials say the ...
Syria regime pummels jihadi-run Idlib, as world watches with 'feeling of helplessness'
Bombs rain on children, hospitals are blown to pieces and the stream of those fleeing the bloodshed rises unabated — after Aleppo and Ghouta, Idlib has become the latest deadly stage in Syria's theater of war, watched by a largely silent international community. Rights groups ...
Syria regime bombardment kills 10 during Eid, monitoring group says
Airstrikes and shelling by regime forces killed 10 civilians in Syria's northwest on Wednesday, as residents marked the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a war monitor said. Two children were among six people killed in regime strikes on the town of Kafr Aweid in the jihadi-held ...
Aided by Russian airstrikes, Syrian troops take village in last rebel stronghold in Idlib
Syrian troops captured on Monday a village in the last rebel stronghold in the northwest province of Idlib, while a government airstrike killed at least three people, opposition activists and state media said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said ...
Syria regime airstrikes kill seven in latest Idlib bloodshed
Regime airstrikes on a jihadi enclave in northwest Syria killed seven civilians on Thursday, a monitor said, the latest deaths in a bloody wave of government attacks. Damascus and its ally, Russia, have pummeled Idlib province and surroundings over the past month despite a truce ...
France has unverified 'indication' of chemical attack in Syria
France's top diplomat said Tuesday that the country had an "indication" that a chemical attack had been carried out in Syria's Idlib province this month, an attack alleged by Washington last week. "We have an indication that chemical weapons were used in the Idlib region, ...
Another wave of regime airstrikes on Tuesday struck a jihadi bastion in northwest Syria where more than 40 civilians have been killed in several days of heavy bombardment, a war monitor said. Six children were among 12 people killed on Tuesday in government fire on ...
Satellite images show crops on fire in Syria rebel enclave after regime airstrikes
New satellite photos obtained on Tuesday show significant damage to Syrian villages and surrounding farmland as a result of a government offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the country. The images, provided to The Associated Press by the Colorado-based Maxar Technologies, show fires in ...
Syrian regime-led air raids hit crowded residential areas in Idlib, killing at least six
At least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble following Syrian government air raids on a crowded residential area in the rebel's last stronghold, rescuers and activists said Monday. The first responders known as White Helmets said five women and a child were ...
Syria regime steps up airstrikes in northwest and seizes small town
Syrian government forces pounded positions in the northwest of the country on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in the heaviest day of air strikes since launching a major campaign against the rebel-held territory nearly four weeks ago. The bombardment helped Russian-backed government ...
