Turkey Wants US Envoy To Leave
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has accused a senior US diplomat of backing Kurdish militants and said he should be sent home. He said Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the coalition against...
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IS Kills More Than 50 In Central Syria Attack
The Islamic State group killed more than 50 people in an attack on two government-held villages in central Syria's Hama province on Thursday, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...
Turkey Calls For Ouster of US Envoy For Anti-IS Coalition
Turkey called Thursday for the removal of the US diplomat coordinating the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, accusing him of backing Syrian Kurdish militia....
Syrians Seek Release of Prisoners From ‘crematorium’ Jail
Standing outside the UN's headquarters in Geneva, Amina Kholani chokes back tears as she relives the nightmare of visiting relatives in Saydnaya, one of Syria's most notorious prisons. The infamous...
US-Led Coalition Denies East Syria Strike That Killed Civilians
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group said Wednesday it did not conduct strikes in the eastern Syrian town of Albu Kamal this week that reportedly killed dozens of civilians. But it...
US-Led Strike On IS-Held Syria Town Kills 23 Civilians
Islamic State jihadists established a caliphate in 2014 after seizing a large swathe of territory in Iraq and Syria, but they have now lost over 50% of the territory they once controlled A US-led...
Syria Regime Nears Total Recapture of Damascus
Syria's regime is close to cementing its control over the entire capital under local deals with rebels after a six-year war that has ravaged suburbs of Damascus and caused population displacements....
Evacuation of Rebel Damascus District Begins
Civilians and rebels began evacuating a third opposition-held district of Damascus on Sunday, bringing the government closer to cementing its control over the Syrian capital. An AFP correspondent...
Deal Reached To Evacuate Rebel-Held Damascus District
Syria's government has reached a deal with rebels in the Qabun neighbourhood of Damascus for the evacuation of opposition fighters, Syrian state media and a monitor said on Saturday. The deal comes...
Hunger and Fear In Syria’s Tabqa After IS Defeat
When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were distributing food, she began to run, desperate for any scraps. After more than a month...
No US Involvement In Deal With IS Fighters
The Pentagon said Friday it played no part in an unusual deal in which Islamic State jihadists were allowed to leave a key town in Syria -- only for some of them to be killed anyway. The US-backed...
Battle For Raqqa Begins This Summer
A US-backed alliance will launch their final assault on ISIS's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa in June, two commanders from the force have said. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Rojda Felat said:...
Battle For Raqqa Begins This Summer
A US-backed alliance will launch their final assault on ISIS's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa in June, two commanders from the force have said. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Rojda Felat said:...
US-Backed Forces Prepare For Final Push On IS-Held Raqa
US-backed fighters said Friday they were preparing for a final assault on the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa, likely next month, after seizing a key city to the west. The Syrian Democratic...
Final Push On Syria’s Raqa In Early Summer
A US-backed alliance of Arabs and Kurds will launch their final assault on the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa in early summer, two commanders from the force said Friday. "The attack on...
Pentagon Chief, Turkish PM Meet After Decision To Arm Kurds
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Thursday he had "no doubt" that Turkey and the United States would work out any differences arising from the US decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria. That...
As Fighting Ebbs In West Syria, Army Looks East
With hostilities subsiding on Syria's western battlefronts, President Bashar al-Assad's army is seeking to head off US-backed forces fighting jihadists further east, analysts and military sources in...
Army Makes Gains In Rebel Area of Damascus
Syrian government forces have gained ground in a rebel-held district of Damascus as part of the regime's efforts to push insurgents into accepting an evacuation deal, a monitor said Thursday. In...
US-Backed Fighters Hunt For IS Holdouts In Syria’s Tabqa
US-backed fighters hunted for jihadist holdouts in Syria's Tabqa on Thursday after overrunning the city and nearby dam in a step forward for their advance on Islamic State group stronghold Raqa. The...
US To Arm Syrias Kurds ‘very Quickly’
The United States will soon start delivering weapons to Syria's Kurdish fighters, despite furious Turkish objections, a US military spokesman said. A first consignment of weapons is already in place...