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Shocking video shows Syrian kids escape militants’ fire in East Ghouta

EASTERN GHOUTA: A shocking video from war-torn Syria has surfaced online showing two children fleeing Eastern Ghouta in the night before they were helped...

Syrian army, Iraqi militia reportedly killing Aleppo civilians: UN

GENEVA: The United Nations said on Tuesday it had reports of Syrian government troops and allied Iraqi militia killing civilians in eastern Aleppo, including...

Syrian army advance in Aleppo as rebels face ‘death or surrender’

ALEPPO: The Syrian army and its allies advanced on Sunday in southeast Aleppo and a rebel official said insurgents face "death or surrender" in...

Major Blow: Syria rebels lose all of northeast Aleppo, claims monitor

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels have lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their stronghold in eastern Aleppo, a monitor said on Monday, as the army...

Syrian army retakes Aleppo district as bombs rain down

DAMASCUS: Syria's army took control of a rebel-held district in central Aleppo on Tuesday, after days of heavy air strikes that have killed dozens and sparked allegations of war crimes.

US-led coalition airstrikes eliminate 60 Syrian army men

BEIRUT: Air strikes blamed by Moscow and Damascus on the US-led coalition hit a Syrian army position in the east on Saturday, killing more than 60 soldiers, the Russian army said.

Kurds versus Syrian army battle intensifies, complicating multi-fronted war

BEIRUT: Fighting between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces intensified late on Friday and into Saturday, creating the risk of yet another front opening in the multi-sided civil war.

Islamic State launches counter-attacks on U.S.-backed forces and Syrian army

AMMAN: The Islamic State group launched a counter attack against fighters trying to capture the Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, inflicting heavy casualties on the U.S.-backed forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the militants said.

Russia, Syrian army pound rebels ahead of fighting halt

DAMASCUS: Russian warplanes bombed Syrian rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria and government forces pounded a suburb of the capital on Thursday, ahead of a planned halt to fighting that rebels predicted Damascus and Moscow would ignore.

Monitor says Syrian army bombs Aleppo school

BEIRUT: A group monitoring the Syrian war said at least nine people including five children were killed in a Syrian army air strike that hit a school in a rebel-held area of the country's second city Aleppo on Sunday, though the army denied the report.

Islamic State moves west to attack Syrian army in Homs: monitor

BEIRUT: Islamic State fighters attacked a military airport in Syria's Homs province on Monday as they pressed a westward offensive against government strongholds, a monitoring group said.

Syrian army takes villages in south

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces have taken control of villages in southern Syria, state media said on Saturday, part of a campaign they started this month against insurgents posing one of the biggest remaining threats to Damascus.

Syrian army recaptures territory north of Aleppo in fierce fighting

BEIRUT: Syria's army seized an area north of Aleppo on Sunday and killed insurgents as fierce battles raged over the strategic territory, a group monitoring the war and state media reported.

ISIL executes soldiers, takes hostages at Syria base

BEIRUT: Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers and are holding a group hostage after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, pictures posted on social media by supporters showed on Wednesday.

Syrian army takes town near Damascus in blow to rebels

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah took control of a town just outside Damascus from Islamist fighters on Thursday, a blow to the rebels who had held it for more than a year.

Syrian army retakes road needed to ship out chemical arms

BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have taken control of a highway connecting Damascus to the coast that is needed to extract hundreds of...

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