April 10, 2016 Syrian government plans to retake Aleppo with Russian support Syrian government forces, with support from Russia, are planning an operation to retake Aleppo and battle an Islamist rebel offensive in the region, the Syrian prime minister said Sunday after a week of clashes.
April 10, 2016 Islamic State frees most of captive Syrian cement workers, 4 from minority sect killed 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 Syrian opposition monitoring group and a news agency linked to the extremists reported Saturday.
April 8, 2016 Calif. freelance photographer freed from Syria after 2012 abduction An unidentified American man has been freed by the Syrian government, the State Department told Fox News Friday.
April 7, 2016 ISIS kidnaps more than 300 Syrian workers The Islamic State terror group has kidnapped more than 300 workers at a Syrian cement company, witnesses and state TV reported Thursday.
April 7, 2016 Putin cheers Russian achievements in Syria as death toll mounts Despite a skyrocketing death toll and new attacks from the Islamic State in Syria, Russian president Vladimir Putin on Thursday cheered his military's achievements there, claiming the Syrian state is stronger now.
April 7, 2016 ISIS made up to $200M last year from seized Palmyra artifacts ISIS militants pocketed up to $200 million last year on plundered antiquities from Palmyra, the Syrian desert town with 2,000-year-old ruins, Russian investigators revealed.
April 6, 2016 Iran in Syria: flexing more, not less, military muscle Just a little over a month ago, Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress that Iran, one of the major backers of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was moving its troops out of that country.
April 6, 2016 'Staggering number' of Europeans embraced jihad, many returning home, EU claims The European Union’s border agency admitted Tuesday it cannot fully track the flood of refugees pouring in, and said a "staggering number" of Europeans have joined terror groups only to return to the continent amid the migrant wave.
April 5, 2016 Syrian pilot reportedly captured by rebels after being shot down A Syrian pilot shot down south of Aleppo has been captured by the Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front, a monitoring group has said.
April 3, 2016 About 40 bodies reportedly found in mass grave in Palmyra Syrian engineering teams and popular defense groups uncovered a mass grave in a neighborhood in the newly recaptured ancient city of Palmyra, Syria’s state-news agency reported Friday.
