Gulf Times | Syria: Truck bomb kills dozens fleeing fighting against IS ABC News Omar Abu Layla of the activist-run DeirEzzor 24 monitoring group said the blast happened at a checkpoint where locals were awaiting passage into SDF territory. He said dozens were killed. The SDF control several oil and gas fields in eastern Syria ... 75 displaced civilians killed in Syria IS attack Territorial losses suffered by Islamic State in Syria, Iraq Syria's army declares victory over Islamic State in key eastern city as Iraqi forces take back border town |
Fox News | Syria's Antioch Church patriarch: US sanctions are hurting Christians too Fox News His Beatitude John X, the Damascus-based leader of the Antioch Christian Church, wrapped up his recent visit to the United States with a desperate appeal for American leadership to bring an end to the suffering in Syria, assist in locating the ... |
BBC News | What will happen in Syria following IS defeats? - BBC News BBC News Civil wars that spread devastation and suffering across a whole country have no real victors. But one war in Syria - that against the Islamic State (IS) group's ... |
BBC News | Syria government forces close in on IS border town - BBC News BBC News Reports suggest IS fighters have fled to Albu Kamal from the Iraqi side of the border. |
Haaretz | Netanyahu: Iran Seeks to Send Its Submarines to Syria's Mediterranean Ports Haaretz Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday in a BBC interview that Iran is seeking to use its close ties with Syria to dock its submarines in Syrian ports. Netanyahu made the same claim in his remarks at the London policy institute Chatham House ... Israeli-Saudi Tandem Adjusts to Syria Loss |
Anadolu Agency | Is It Really 'Mission Accomplished' in Iraq and Syria? smallwarsjournal (blog) The Syrian city of Raqqa is a graphic and distressing microcosm for the broader U.S.-led war against the Islamic State. The city, captured by the Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces this month, was the culmination of a four month campaign that ... Iraqi PM raises flag at Daesh-free crossing with Syria ISIS on the verge of losing its last oil fields in Syria as Kurdish forces overrun new sites Abadi raises Iraq flag at Syria border crossing retaken from ISIL |
The Guardian | Omar Souleyman: To Syria, With Love review – relentless, tiring beats The Guardian Like much of Mad Decent's output, any two minutes of To Syria, With Love sampled at random sound fantastic – an aural peephole into the most exciting party on the planet. However, a mountain range would never be beautiful if it consisted entirely of ... |
The Times of Israel | Palestinian Authority claims Israel backs al-Qaeda in Syria | The ... The Times of Israel Ramallah says IDF promise to defend village of Hader was a 'tactical retreat' following pressure from Israeli Druze. Violence hits Druze village Hader in Syria's Quneitra What Israel Wanted to Achieve With Threat of Military Intervention in Syrian Druze Village Israeli military says ready to protect Druze village in Syria |
New York Times | ISIS, Squeezed on Two Sides, Loses Syrian City and Border Crossing New York Times The loss is another blow to the Islamic State and a sign of the resurgence of the Syrian army. |
Islamic State bombing kills dozens in east Syria: war monitor Reuters BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least one Islamic State car bomb killed dozens of people at a refugee gathering on the east side of the Euphrates River in Syria on Saturday, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said the blast also ... |