In Syria, the government has sent reinforcements to Eastern Ghouta, tightening the siege around the rebel-held enclave. Head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, said at least seven hundred foreign loyalist militiamen who came from Aleppo have been sent to Ghouta. The ...

Beirut:A convoy of pro-government fighters entered Syria's Afrin region on Tuesday, a monitor said, as Turkey pressed its assault on the Kurdish-controlled enclave. "Hundreds of fighters entered the Afrin region on Tuesday afternoon," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Beirut: A Russian pilot was killed on Saturday in clashes with hardline rebels after they downed his warplane over Syria's northwest province of Idlib, a monitor said. "The pilot was killed as he fought Islamist rebels who had shot down his plane and were taking him captive," said the Syrian ...

Beirut: A US-backed Arab-Kurd alliance announced on Sunday it had retaken one of Syria's largest oilfields from the Islamic State group in the east of country.                  The Al-Omar oilfield in the province of Deir Ezzor produced 30,000 barrels per day before the start of ...

BEIRUT (APP): Militants and their rebel allies pressed an offensive Friday with a massive attack aimed at seizing a military academy south of Aleppo and breaking a three-week-old siege of insurgent neighbourhoods.Their assault focusing on the artillery and armaments schools of the academy has ...

BEIRUT (APP) - Advancing Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by US-led air strikes now control 40 percent of the Islamic State stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, a monitor said Sunday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had pushed deeper into the town ...

BEIRUT (APP/AFP) - At least 56 civilians, including 11 children, were killed Tuesday in dawn raids by the US-led coalition outside a Syrian village held by the Islamic State group, a monitor said."Residents were fleeing the village of Al-Tukhar in Aleppo province when the strikes hit," said Rami ...