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14 Children, 9 Women Killed as US-Led Air Strikes in Syria

14 Children, 9 Women Killed as US-Led Air Strikes in Syria

US-led coalition air strikes killed 26 civilians including 14 children Friday in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. “Twenty-six IS family members including 14 children and 9 women were killed in coalition air strikes on Friday morning on the town of Hajin,” the Syrian Observatory for […]

November 12, 2018 | By | Reply More
French jihadist mothers in Syria face terrible choice

French jihadist mothers in Syria face terrible choice

For dozens of French women detained in Syria, an impossible choice looms: keeping their children in a war zone, or sending them home knowing they might never see each other again. Like other Western nations which experienced a jihadist exodus to Iraq or Syria, France is grappling with how to handle citizens left in the […]

November 1, 2018 | By | Reply More
IS frees six Syria Druze women, children after three-month ordeal

IS frees six Syria Druze women, children after three-month ordeal

The Islamic State group has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern Syria. State television broadcast footage of the six arriving in the city of Sweida on Saturday, joyful at being reunited with their families but haggard […]

October 20, 2018 | By | Reply More
Damascus shells Idlib as UN chief warns of ‘bloodbath’

Damascus shells Idlib as UN chief warns of ‘bloodbath’

Government forces shelled Syria’s last major rebel bastion on Wednesday, hours after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council any full-blown offensive in Idlib risks triggering a “bloodbath”. As troops massed for a Russian-backed offensive in the northwest, Kurdish-led rebels launched a US-backed assault in the east to oust the Islamic State group from […]

September 12, 2018 | By | Reply More
Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece- lawyer

Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece- lawyer

Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged people smuggling, her lawyer said on Friday. Greek police said on Tuesday they had arrested two members of an aid organization on the island of Lesbos and were […]

August 31, 2018 | By | Reply More
Survivors of last major Islamic State battle in Iraq beg for food

Survivors of last major Islamic State battle in Iraq beg for food

On a scorching August afternoon, an angry crowd besieged a mini-truck loaded with meat of two slaughtered cows amidst the ruins of what was the last Islamic State (IS) bastion in Mosul. In a desperate scramble, they grabbed beef from a man standing in the open back of the truck and, after it pulled away, […]

August 24, 2018 | By | Reply More
At least 69 killed as explosion destroys two five-storey buildings in Sarmada, Syria

At least 69 killed as explosion destroys two five-storey buildings in Sarmada, Syria

An explosion in northern Syria has killed at least 69 people and wounded many others, but the cause of the blast is not immediately known, opposition activists say. The White Helmets, first responder rescue workers also known as Syria Civil Defence, said the blast occurred in the village of Sarmada near the Turkish border on […]

August 13, 2018 | By | Reply More
Israeli forces raid al-Aqsa mosque after clashes- two dead in Gaza

Israeli forces raid al-Aqsa mosque after clashes- two dead in Gaza

Israeli troopers entered Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest shrine in Islam, and carried out arrests on Friday in what police described as a pursuit of youths who had lobbed rocks and fireworks during clashes with its forces outside. The rare raid, on a site that is an emblem of Palestinians’ statehood hopes and a frequent […]

July 28, 2018 | By | Reply More
Nearly 250 dead in Islamic State attacks on south Syria- new toll

Nearly 250 dead in Islamic State attacks on south Syria- new toll

The death toll in coordinated Islamic State group suicide bombings and shootings in southern Syria rose to nearly 250 overnight, more than half of them civilians, a monitor said Thursday. Wednesday’s attacks hit Sweida, a Druze-majority province mostly held by the government which had remained relatively insulated from the country’s seven-year civil war. The death […]

July 26, 2018 | By | Reply More
Palestinian dies after being shot in Gaza clashes- ministry

Palestinian dies after being shot in Gaza clashes- ministry

A Palestinian has died days after being shot by Israeli forces in clashes along the Gaza border, the enclave’s health ministry said Tuesday. Sari al-Shobaki had been transferred to Jerusalem for treatment after being shot several days ago east of Gaza City, the ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. A ministry spokesman said the 23-year-old […]

July 17, 2018 | By | Reply More