BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a
Syria’s ongoing battle with the Islamic State continues to take a heavy toll on the civilian population with hundreds of noncombatants killed during March 2016 either as direct targets of Islamist militants or “collateral damage” from airstrikes. The UK-based Syrian
Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday, inflicting what the army called a “mortal blow” to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss
Syrian government forces advanced into Palmyra on Saturday with heavy support from Russian air strikes, taking control of several districts in a major assault against Islamic State fighters, Syrian state media and a monitoring group said. Television footage showed waves of
The fate of President Bashar al-Assad will play no part in talks to end the Syrian war, the head of the government’s delegation said, leading the U.N. peace envoy to warn that lack of progress on the issue could threaten
Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A
Kurdish fighters from the U.S.-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG) have reportedly repelled an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) offensive on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, which sits close to the Turkish border in Raqqa province.
At least 46 people were killed in twin car bomb blasts that hit Syria’s Homs on Sunday in one of the deadliest such attacks in the city in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said, and state media
The Bashar al-Assad regime, ahead of a proposed truce negotiated by major world powers, has intensified its barrel bombing campaign against opposition forces in the besieged town of Daraya, a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, video footage shows.
A delegation from the international coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), led by an Obama administration envoy, reportedly told Kurds in northern Syria that they have a “right” to an autonomous region during a recent visit to the country.
The city of Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, scene of a recent mass abduction by the Islamic State, looks to be a decisive battle between ISIS and the Syrian army in the eastern region of the country—and there are indications ISIS is winning.
Reports have emerged from Syria that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has abducted at least 400 civilians from Deir ez-Zor, Syria, after a mass beheading that took more than 100 lives.
A southern Syria Islamist coalition, led by Syria’s al Qaeda offshoot al-Nusra Front, issued an ultimatum for the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate, to surrender within 24 hours, reports the Lebanon-based NOW News.
From CNN: ISIS, which comes up with more and more heinous methods of execution, has ramped up its cruelty: Members of the group tied three people to the pillars in the ancient section of Palmyra and killed them by detonating
Iranian troops, allied Hezbollah fighters, and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army have reportedly joined forces to launch a ground offensive, backed by Russian airstrikes, to seize key areas from rebels in Syria.
The French military’s first airstrike against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria killed 30 jihadists, including 12 child fighters known as “Caliphate cubs,” reveals a U.K.-based monitor group.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in London, a 22-year-old woman in the Syrian city of Deir al-Ezzor was imprisoned for two months, and then executed, by the Islamic State for speaking “disrespectfully” about the “caliphate” on the WhatsApp social media platform.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria has executed at least 91 people in the last month, bringing the total number of persons it has killed since the declaration of its so-called “Caliphate” 14-months ago to about 3,156, reports a U.K.-based monitor group.
More than 100 people were killed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regime airstrikes on a heavily trafficked market northeast of Damascus on Sunday, making it one of the deadliest attacks of the four-year civil war, according to a monitor group.
An alliance of Sunni Islamist militias in Syria that includes the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra have reportedly mounted a major offensive toward the country’s Alawite heartland in the home province of President Bashar al-Assad where many Christians reside.
Syrian Islamic State (IS) supporters have publicly crucified, flogged and caged nearly 100 people accused of breaking the daytime fast observed during the Muslim holy month. UK-based monitor the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR) yesterday said it had documented 94 such punishment cases
IIslamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists crucified two boys in Syria for “not fasting” in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, reported U.K.-based monitor group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Syrian refugees in Turkey are beginning to make their way back to their homes in the city of Tal Abyad after Kurdish forces there defeated the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), dealing a major blow to the jihadist group, reports Agence-France Presse (AFP).
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) used an ancient Roman amphitheater in Syria’s historic city of Palmyra for a mass execution of prisoners, forcing civilians to watch, according to a monitory group.
More than half of Syria fell under the control of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) after the jihadist group captured the ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor group said.
Members of a Palestinian faction linked to the terror group Hamas, backed by Syrian rebels, were able to retake large parts of a refugee camp in Syria that had been seized by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, according to a monitoring group.
New footage of a gruesome public beheading in a town square of al-Shadadi, a northern Syrian town controlled by the Islamic State, has hit the Internet. A man, whose crime is unknown, is seen pleading for his life to a crowd of dozens of onlookers before an Islamic State executioner severs his head to shouts of “Allahu Akbar!”
The year 2014 saw the death of at least 90,000 people as a result of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq brought on by ISIS jihadists, more than double the figure for 2013. According to reports, at least 76,000 were killed in Syria and another 15,000 in Iraq.
