July 25, 2018 Hundreds killed as ISIS fighters ambush city, towns in southern Syria Islamic State (ISIS) fighters ambushed a city and several villages in southern Syria on Wednesday, triggering ferocious clashes between residents and the militants that provincial health officials said killed more than 200 people.
July 22, 2018 Israel evacuates Syrian White Helmet rescue workers from border area The Israeli military in coordination with its U.S. and European allies evacuated hundreds of Syrian rescue workers known as the White Helmets from near its volatile frontier with Syria, in a complex and first-of-a-kind operation.
June 27, 2018 Jordan keeps border sealed, says it cannot take more Syrian refugees amid new fighting As escalating fighting across southwestern Syria displaces thousands of people, Jordan has reiterated it will not reopen its borders and instead called on the United Nations to act.
June 21, 2018 Clinic rescues hearts, and minds, of young Yazidis abused by ISIS A clinic near Stuttgart, Germany, treats Yazidi women who have been traumatized by ISIS.
June 8, 2018 US plan to release alleged American ISIS fighter in Syria draws ACLU legal challenge The Trump administration’s plan to release a suspected ISIS fighter in Syria with $4,000 in cash and a new cell phone is facing a legal challenge from a civil rights group that decried the move as the “death sentence.”
June 8, 2018 Airstrike on rebel-held northwestern Syrian village kills 35 A Syrian war monitor and paramedics say an airstrike on a rebel-held northwestern village has killed at least 35 and wounded dozens, including children.
June 3, 2018 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to visit Kim Jong Un in North Korea, state media says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will visit Kim Jong Un in North Korea’s capital, the regime’s state media announced Sunday in what would be the first face-to-face meeting between the two dictators.
May 29, 2018 Syrian opposition, out of jail space, fears threat of released ISIS prisoners ISIS may be on the verge of defeat in Syria, but locals in northern opposition-held areas fear a resurgence, claiming that they have received little in the way of necessary support to keep the terrorists behind bars.
May 21, 2018 As ISIS targets disappear in Iraq and Syria, US military shifts focus back to Afghanistan As the war against the Islamic State terror group winds down in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military is increasingly turning its attention to Afghanistan.
May 17, 2018 Syria's Assad travels to Russia to meet with Putin The Kremlin says Syrian President Bashar Assad has met with President Vladimir Putin at his summer residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
