Syrian rebels said they seized control of the southern city of Daraa on Saturday, the birthplace of a 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and the fourth city his forces have lost in a week. Daraa's seizure followed the rebels' claim late on Friday that they had advance...
Syria: life in the rebel strongholds After more than two years of bloodshed the Syrian conflict is no closer to a resolution. Author Robin Yassin-Kassab takes a personal journey into the troubled nation Syria’s revolution behind the lines Great microcosm of revolution Syria’s western-backed re...
While painting, they played a nostalgic music to further inspire them to revive the glorious past in the area that was one of the busiest in Damascus. The Yarmouk area had been one of the latest strongholds of the Islamic State (IS) south of Damascus before their defeat in that area earl...
The report said the Syrian army dealt precise strikes on the rebel positions in the northern countryside of Hama, inflicting a hefty toll on the rebels of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the umbrella group of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front. SANA said the army in northern Hama got engag...
Rebels led by the Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had pledged to move on to the central city of Homs, a crossroads city that links the capital Damascus to the north and Assad’s heartland along the coast. MORE: Places the U.S. Government Warns Not to Travel Right Now ...
Gov't forces recaptured the town of Qara, near Lebanon's border, from rebels, cutting off a key supply route to opposition forces in the Damascus suburbs. Access to the town also gives regime forces control of a highway that links the capital to pro-Assad strongholds on the Mediterranean ...
Al Qaeda leaves east Syria strongholds to Islamic State Islamic State seizes oil field and towns in Syria’s east – Yahoo News In Raqqa, an All-Female ISIS Brigade Cracks Down on Local Women | Syria Deeply Extremist group takes Syria’s key oil field Aaron Y. Zelin Uncategorized Leave a...
Assad long relied on allies to subdue the rebels. Russian warplanes conducted bombing while Iran sent allied forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iraqi militia to reinforce the Syrian military and storm insurgent strongholds. But Russia has been focused on the war in Ukraine since 2...
And by the spring of 1976, as his allies besieged the strongholds of his old Maronite rivals, he scented victory.”[vi] However, for Assad, this could not stand. In his view, the LMN was positioning Lebanon into a state of partition, which played directly into the geopolitical designs ...
Dozens of Syrian soldiers have been killed and some others wounded in the fighting, according to the statement. The ministry said the militant groups had entered large sections of Aleppo neighborhoods but were prevented from establishing strongholds. ...