U.S. confirms Syria used chemical weapons in Idlib in May and vows response
The United States said Thursday it had confirmed another chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, although there were no fatalities, and vowed a response. The Assad regime used chlorine on May 19 in Latakia province during its ferocious offensive to take back ...
Erdogan hosts Putin and Rouhani for Syria summit with focus on Assad's push to seize Idlib
The latest summit on Syria hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara with his Russian and Iranian counterparts started on Monday, with attention focused on Damascus's push on the last rebel-held bastion of Idlib. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani met Erdogan for ...
Syrian government artillery pounds south Idlib amid truce: rescuers
Syrian troops shelled the south of Idlib on Sunday, according to rescuers and residents in the rebel stronghold where a cease-fire had halted a fierce army offensive two weeks ago. Artillery fire battered Maarat al-Numan town and nearby villages in the south Idlib countryside over ...
Warplanes strike Syria's Idlib despite latest cease-fire, say monitors
Airstrikes pounded the south of Syria's Idlib region on Thursday, a rebel official and residents said, despite a cease-fire that had halted a fierce army offensive against the rebel stronghold two weeks ago. Government warplanes bombed the south Idlib countryside for the first time since, ...
Turkish military enters Syria to begin joint U.S. 'safe zone' patrol, irking Damascus
Armed Turkish military vehicles crossed into war-stricken Syria on Sunday to begin joint patrols with U.S. counterparts to establish a high-stakes "safe zone" along a border region controlled by Kurdish forces. Vehicles with Turkish flags joined those in Syria with U.S. flags some 15 km ...
Regime forces inch forward in northwest Syria, claiming more civilian lives, observer says
Russian-backed regime forces seized several towns and villages in northwest Syria Thursday, as deadly airstrikes hit the jihadi-held bastion, a monitor said. Seven civilians died in airstrikes in the south of the stronghold, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after regime air ...
Regime and Russian airstrikes kill 16 civilians in northwest Syria, monitor says
Bombardment by the Syrian regime and ally Russia killed 16 civilians including seven children in the country's northwest Wednesday, a monitor said, as Damascus presses an offensive against the jihadist-run bastion Idlib. Among those, six children and six adults lost their lives in regime airstrikes ...
Syrian rebels push back against Russia-backed regime forces' advances in Idlib
Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched a wide-scale attack against a five-month Russia-backed Syrian army campaign aiming to take back the opposition's last major bastion, opposition officials, rebels and residents said. The push-back comes as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in ...
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 ...
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 ...
