Syria

The Syrian army has made a significant advance in its effort to take rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, reports say.Troops have cut off the region's biggest town, Douma, and isolated another, according to UK-based conflict monitors the…

An aid convoy with urgently needed supplies has reached the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area of Syria, for the first time since mid-February. The Syrian Red Crescent said 46 truckloads of food parcels were delivered to 27,500 people, along…

  Pro-government forces in Syria have reportedly recaptured about 10% of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta enclave, the BBC reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, says…

The Libyan east-based Minister of Economy, Munir Al-Aser, who is loyal to the House of Representatives and warlord Khalifa Haftar met last Saturday with his Syrian counterpart Mohammed Samir Al-Khalil in Damascus, in a visit…

Four Russian nationals, and perhaps dozens more, were killed in fighting between pro-government forces in eastern Syria and members of the United States-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, according to Russian and…

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has described his country's most significant air strikes on Syria in decades as a heavy blow to Syria and Iran. The attacks were in response to Syrian government forces…

Syria’s opposition will cooperate with proposals made at a Russia-hosted conference this week to rewrite the country’s constitution as long as the process remains under U.N. auspices, the chief opposition negotiator said on…

Participants of a Russia-hosted conference for peace in Syria have agreed to set up a commission to rewrite the war-torn country's constitution.Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, said on Tuesday that…

Turkish forces have captured a number of villages in north-western Syria, on the third day of an offensive to oust Kurdish fighters, Turkish media report.Troops, accompanied by allied Syrian rebels, reportedly seized control of several…

The Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia, supported by the United States but seen as a terrorist organization by Turkey, said it had repulsed the Turkish forces and their allies after fierce clashes. Intense Turkish artillery…

Syria has threatened to shoot down Turkish warplanes in its airspace, as Turkey prepares to carry out a possible assault on a Kurdish enclave.Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said any incursion into Afrin would be considered an act…

About 30 civilians have been reported killed in air strikes on two towns in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Syria's capital, Damascus.The Syria Civil Defence said one of its rescue workers was among 18 people who died…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, that Sixty-five journalists and media personnel were killed worldwide in 2017.According to annual figures published by RSF, Syria is the deadliest country for journalists with 12…

Russian troops in Syria will begin partial withdrawal from war torn country after Russian president arrived there on Monday, in an unannounced visit.Russian president Vladimir Putin was met with Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad as he…

Syrian state TV reported missiles targeting a military base outside the Syrian capital overnight, were launched by Israel.Two missiles were intercepted, according to the Syrian State TV, but the base suffered material damages, he…

A group of ISIL fighters has evacuated the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, taking civilians with them as human shields, a militia spokesperson said, as the battle continued with fighters who stayed behind.The US-backed Syrian…

The commander of Operation Dignity in eastern Libya, Khalifa Haftar, appears to have instructed the government of eastern Libya – Interim Government of Abdullah Al-Thinni – to regains some sort og relations with Syria’s regime led by…

Lebanon’s Hezbollah accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Sunday of pushing the region to war in Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and said nowhere in Israel would be safe if such a conflict were to erupt.…