The United States has offered Russia a broad new military partnership in Syria, hoping the attraction of a unified campaign against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida — and a Russian commitment to ground Syria's bombers — could end five years of ci
Baghdad: Abu Omar al-Shishani,regarded by the Pentagon as Islamic State’s “minister of war”, was killed in a US strike in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, south of Mosul, confirmed a news agency linked to the
With each passing day, dreaded militant group Islamic State is losing more territory in Iraq and Syria to US-led international coalition.
Islamic State militants abducted about 900 Kurdish civilians in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo over the past three weeks, forcing the captives to build fortifications for the extremists in retaliation for a Kurdish-led assault on a nearby IS
Beirut: The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces pushed into the outskirts of the Islamic State group’s stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria on Thursday and were advancing slowly to the center of town, an adviser to
Ankara: Turkey said it will open the Hatay border with Syria during the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr for Syrians in Turkey to return home, the media said today. The border opening will be restricted
Damascus: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad today ordered Minister of Electricity Emad Khamis to form a new government, the media reported. Assad appointed Khamis as prime minister of the new government, replacing former Prime Minister Waerl
The total number of refugees and internally displaced people who are victims of conflict and persecution in places like Syria and Afghanistan worldwide has risen to a record 65.3 million at the end of last year, says the U.N. refugee agency.
Moscow: Russia's defense minister visited Syria on Saturday to meet the country's leader and inspect the Russian air base there, a high-profile trip intended to underline Moscow's role in the region. Sergei Shoigu met with
Amid the media reports which emerged last week and claimed that IS chief Abu Bakr-Al-Baghdadi was killed in a US airstrike, Damascus's envoy to Moscow on Friday said, "I definitely know that he (Baghdadi) was wounded".
Dozens of State Department employees have endorsed an internal document that advocates US military action to pressure Syria's government into accepting a cease-fire and engaging in peace talks, officials said on Thursday. The position is at odds with
Dreaded terror group Islamic State has crucified two civilians in Deir ez-Zor, seventh largest city in Syria, for not observing the laws of Ramadan.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) told Newsweek that the monitoring group was informed by Baghdadi's death by the extremist group and that it will soon announce his successor.
Beirut: Two suicide bombers struck close to the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more in the latest attack to hit the predominantly Shiite area in recent months, state TV
London: Dreaded terror outfit ISIS is now planning to carry out nuclear attacks by acquiring weapons, a leading international think tank has said, highlighting the threat of ISIS. Moshe Kantor, the president of the
Chief of terror group Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been wounded in an air strike by US-led coalition forces on one of the group’s command headquarters close to the Syrian border in Iraq.
Beirut: Suggesting that world is becoming violent by the day, a new study has claimed that presently, the terrorist attacks are at an all-time high. According to the 2016 Global Peace Index, the number of
Raqqa (Syria): Dreaded terror group Islamic State appears to be on the verge of being defeated in its stronghold of Syria as the army has crossed the boundary to Raqqa province and is offensive against
Dreaded terror group Islamic State has released a video urging Muslims to destroy their satellite TV sets to prevent hostile channels ‘destroying their beliefs and polluting their ethics’.
A wave of late night airstrikes pummeled the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, killing at least 23 people, wounding dozens and trapping several under the rubble of their homes, opposition activists said Tuesday.
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