9 month agoUS will host foreign ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS on February 6 in Washington. "The full 79-member Coalition will meet for in-depth discussions on the impending territorial defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria," according to @StateDept.
Explosion shakes the city of Idlib
U.S. announces a meeting of foreign ministers of the international coalition to defeat ISIS on Feb. 6 in the Washington
9 month agoSyria: town of Lataminah (N. Hama) illuminated tonight by flares fired by government. SAA artillery bombardment continues on SE. Idlib countryside.
Sniper shot SAA soldier on the Masasinah axis north of Hama.
Military police in the town of Azzaz, north of Aleppo, arrested those involved in the car bombing that targeted the city yesterday evening.
A number of civilians were killed by the bombing of an aircraft believed to belong to the International Coalition on the outskirts of the town of Al-Bagouz east of Deir Ez-Zor Governorate
Sporadic clashes between the FSA and YPG on the fronts of Kafr Khashir and Mar'naz in the northern Aleppo countryside.
Explosion targeted a military vehicle in the city of Manbij, no casualties
White Helmets rescuer was shot and wounded on the road between Kafr Karmin and Kafr Nasih by unknown gunmen
HTS cuts all roads between the western Aleppo countryside and the Olive Branch areas north of Aleppo and raises earth mounds in the area of Semaan.
An explosion rocks Syria's Manbij city in the north, casualties reported.
9 month agoRussian President Special Envoy for Syria Aleksandr Lavrentiev and Deputy FM Sergey Vershinin met Israeli PM Netanyahu
IS claims 3 attacks in Raqqa today (2 targeted killings and IED blast) and 1 yesterday (grenade attack)
CIA Director Haspel tells @SenTomCotton the SDF in Syria "have hundreds of foreign fighters" in their prisons and the U.S. is trying to return them to their host countries so they don't get released.
Deir al-Azur Eastern countryside: SDF found large quantities of light and medium weapons belonging to the ISIS in the town of Al-Shifa.
9 month agoArtillery shelling today on Kafr Zita
Eyeing reconstruction, Syria and Iran strike deal to allow bank transfers
9 month agoSyria Kurdish Leader Ilham Ahmed rejects any Turkey Controlled Safe Zone in SDF areas. Gives Afrin as failed example. @MiddleEastInst
Turkish Presidential Spokesman Kalın, talked to US President Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton on the phone
9 month agoSyrian President Bashar al-Assad during his meeting with Eshaq Jahangiri, the first vice president of Iran, hails economic cooperation deals between his country and Iran as strong economic base to face "economic war" launched by the West
North Korea, Syria, Russia and ISIS have all used chemical weapons over the last two years, according to DNI Coats.
Acting US Secretary of Defense: we will seized all ISIS lands in just 2 weeks
9 month agoIn response to the attack against civilians in Maraat al-Nouman, HTS is targeting SAA positions in Northern Hama.
Shanahan: "99.5%+ of ISIS controlled territory has been returned to the Syrians. In a couple weeks it will be 100%." "There's more work to do" in terms of how to mitigate flow of refugees in the region, which will leverage coalition and State Dept talks, ASecDef says.
Shanahan: "In terms of the withdrawal from Syria, [it's] in early stages. It's a "coordinated and disciplined" withdrawal. Adds "ISIS is no longer able to govern.or mass forces in Syria. Syria is no longer a safe haven."
ISIS Daesh claims killing 7 SDF troops in Marashidad and Safaqanih villages in Baghuz, Daesh fighters are organized into small units of 10 men , some have melted away some are conducting sporadic ambush attacks. USAF airstrikes continue on various areas in Baghuz.
9 month agoSDF helping civilians to evacuate from last 4 square kilometers large enclave of ISIS
Opposition fighters targeted Atshan in North Hama with artillery
9 month agoHTS destroys a large amount of drugs being smuggled through N. Syria.
The International coalition targets several areas in the village of Arqub in the eastern countryside of Deir Al-Azur.
Artillery shelled the town of Khan Sheikhun in the southern countryside of Idlib
Death toll of rocket attacks on the city of Ma'arat al-Nu'man raised to 11 killed and dozens wounded
SDF spox @mustefabali tells Reuters the presence of the children of ISIS fighters is slowing the advance on the group's last enclave
9 month agoMassive artillery shelling by Assad government forces, based in Abo Dali village, targeted Ma'arat al-Nu'man city, rural Idlib left behind 3 civilians were killed and others wounded mostly children
4 civilians wounded in al-Raqqa explosion
Rocket launchers shelling the Ma'an-al-Nu'man south of Idlib
9 month agoArtillery shelling on Ma'arat al-Nu'man city. One child was killed
9 month agoAccording to a joint coordination of the General Security Service of the city of Raqqa with experts of mines and explosives, the General Security Service finds a warehouse of weapons of remnants of the ISIS organization
9 month agoSAA bombard north of the city of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in the southern countryside of Idlib with rocket launchers
An SAA convoy consisting of several shilkas and tanks arrived at the Idlib front.
9 month agoEastern Aleppo: Turkish fighter jets flying over the region of Gandoura near Manbij
Artillery shelling targeted the town of Kafr Zita and the town of Latamna north of Hama.
9 month agoSAA artillery shelling town of Al Tah in Southern Idlib
SAA Artillery shelling on the outskirts of Latamna north of Hama
SDF: Some media reported that the SDF or their political representatives sent a delegation 2 meet with Hezbollah for mediation with the Syrian gov't. We confirm that no delegation has met with Hezb. and requested mediation on our behalf during the meetings that took place in Lebanon.
9 month agoSeveral killed in explosion in Idlib city
Iran's @JZarif called Russia/n counterpart Lavrov just as Deputy FM Vershinin and Putin's Syria envoy Lavrentyev are in Israel. Moscow engaged in new round of efforts to tone down latest Iran, Israel escalations amidst rumors of Russian own escalations with Iran
Almost 130 French jihadists to be repatriated from Syria in the coming weeks, interior minister says.
Suicide bomber targeted building of "Salvation government" in Idlib
ISIS last pocket confined to no more than 3 km² in east Syria, Deir ez-Zur.
A woman succumbed of her wounds after earlier artillery shelling on Kafr Zita in North Hama
SAA artillery shelled the village of Al-Qasabiya in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria
A violent explosion shakes the city of Idlib
9 month agoBombing the Islamic State - a US airforce B1B strategic bomber flies over Shaafa in Deir Ezzor, Syria last week.
Russian @kommersant writes that mil. operation of Syrian army to return Idlib (fully or partially) under gov. control is basically done deal. Turkey will likely give green light. Question is only about parameters of the op and what Turks will get in return
Deir ez-Zur Eastern countryside: Nearly 200 people, mostly women and children, left the last enclave of ISIS in the eastern suburb of Deir al-Zour in the past 24 hours.
9 month agoSDF fighters found weapons and ammunition depot and drugs belonging to IS militants in the Marashli village
Some ISIS Fighters are surrendering to SDF at Al-Marashidah
Clashes between FSA and HTS on the one side and pro-Assad forces on the Tamoura frontline in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
9 month agoSyria: aftermath of government's artillery (MLRS) bombardment on village of Qasabiyah located in S. Idlib countryside.
HTS militants are storming the city of Ma'arat al-Nu'man and control the headquarters of the bank and the museum amid a state of great alert in the city Idlib
Iran says it will build a power plant in the Syrian city of Latakia
9 month ago6 civilians were injured in addition to the partial destruction of some civilian property, after a car bomb explosion in the city of Azzaz north of Aleppo this evening.
9 month agoArtillery shelling of SAA on Kafr Zita city in Northern Hama today
Massive reinforcements of Hurras Al-Din and Ansar Al-Tahweed and HTS,including the defeated NLF are arriving to Latakia,Hama,Aleppo,Idlib Countryside fronts with the Assad government
Video from inside Marashida
9 month agoA car bomb exploded in Azaz town north of Aleppo
9 month agoA car bomb exploded in Azaz town north of Aleppo
ISIS confined to a last pocket covering no more than 4 km² in east Syria: SDF commander to @AFP
9 month agoRussian special envoy to Syria Aleksandr Lavrentiev and Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Vershinin held talks with Israeli officials on the situation in the region amid US withdrawal from Syria
President Putin's special envoy Lavrentiev and deputy FM Vershinin arrived in Israel for talks on the situation in Syria
9 month agoStudents of the University of Idlib organized a protest to highlight the crimes of the Assad government and the need to hold accountability for these crimes against humanity
9 month agoPro ISIS media outlet acknowledges capture of Islamic State media operative Abu Radwan al Kanadi ID'd as Canadian Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed
9 month agoYPG captured 3 ISIS fighters of Sudanese and Tajik origin in Deir al-Zour yesterday.
An artillery shell targeting the town of Safafna in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Ezur
Spokesman of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Ramadan Sharif: Tel-Aviv talk about the killing of 12 Iranians in the recent strikes on Syria, "baseless lies"
9 month agoIS up-armored and desert-colored 4x4 SVBIED with 5x frontal exterior IEDs captured by YPG in al-Baghuz/Marashida area
Macron: Normalization with Damascus will not be acceptable without progress on the solution in Syria
Macron: The Egyptian-French vision is shared with regard to reaching a solution in Syria
Sisi: I reviewed with the French President the outstanding Middle East issues, especially Syria, Libya and the Palestinian issue
9 month agoMilitary police officers of the Southern Military District met in Dagestan after returning from Syria
A civilian was killed by a mine explosion in Afrin
9 month agoIranian government Airbus A340-313 EP-IGA A340 arriving Damascus
A child was killed by artillery shelling by SAA forces on the village of Zakat in the northern Hama
A woman was injured by artillery fire on Habit in Southern Idlib
9 month agoUSNavy P8A 168438 Maritime surveillance and ASW platform, operating eastern Mediterranean.
SAA forces stationed in the northern outskirts of Hama bombard the outskirts of the town of Habit in the southern countryside of Idlib.
SAA shelled the city of Morak, north of Hama
SAA shelled the village of Zakah, north of Hama
