The Guardian | Convoy of Isis fighters and families blocked by airstrikes in Syria The Guardian But the coalition against Isis has used airstrikes to block the convoy from crossing into the group's main territory straddling Syria's eastern border with Iraq. The Isis fighters in the border pocket accepted a truce and evacuation deal after ... The Latest: Syria rebels release captured government pilot US-Led Coalition Says Still Monitoring IS Convoy in Syria UN: IS strongholds in Syria could fall by October |
The Guardian | Last Isis stronghold in Syria could fall by October, says UN envoy The Guardian Raqqa, the last Islamic State stronghold in Syria, will fall by the end of October, allowing credible democratic elections to be held within a year, according to the UN special envoy for the country. Setting out a highly optimistic scenario for the end ... US-backed forces in Syria's Raqqa say they take old city The US Is in Denial About the Civilians It's Killing in Syria US-backed Syria force says seizes Raqa Old City from IS |
Los Angeles Times | Just outside Syria's capital, a battle still rages over one of the last ... Los Angeles Times A little-noticed but bitter struggle continues in the few remaining rebel-held enclaves on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus. |
Newsweek | Bogus Truces in Syria Are Handing Assad an Easy Victory Newsweek The past two years have seen a series of truces between the Syrian regime and rebel groups. Such deals, labelled by the regime as “national reconciliation” agreements, lead the two sides to compromises that extract them from existential battles of ... UN must step in to prevent Syria horrors Iran's Hold on Syria and its Threat to Israel are Direct Results of Nuclear Deal |
New York Times | Islamic State Convoy Remains Stuck in Syria New York Times By relocating them, Syria and Lebanon removed any Islamic State presence on the western border and concentrated it in the east, where Iraqi and American forces would have to deal with them. The Islamic State is also known as ISIS or ISIL. Now it ... Coalition Airstrikes Block ISIS Convoy From Traveling Through Syria ... Islamic State convoy in Syria appears to have turned back, US-led coalition says US-led strikes in Syria block IS militants evacuated from Lebanon |
AMN Al-Masdar News (registration) | First scenes of the Syrian Army inside ISIL's last stronghold in central Syria AMN Al-Masdar News (registration) BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:50 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), alongside their allies from the National Defense Forces (NDF), steamrolled through the Islamic State's (ISIS/ISIL) defenses on Friday to enter the terrorist group's last stronghold in central ... Syrian Army Kicks Out Daesh Terrorists From Nine Settlements in Hama Province |
The Sun | Illegal immigrant 'sent sim cards to jihadis in Syria and Iraq to help promote ISIS' The Sun AN ILLEGAL immigrant sent hundreds of SIM cards to IS jihadis in Iraq and Syria, a court heard. Car valet Rabar Mala, 32, allegedly provided 437 cards and phone numbers to help the terror group spread its propaganda. Car valet Rabar Mala, 32, allegedly ... |
The Independent | Video of schoolboy who befriended Syrian refugee classmate warms hearts across internet The Independent A young boy's tale of how he befriended his new Syrian schoolmate has gone viral. Rani Asaad fled from Syria at the age of four and was then bullied in his first few days at Harrop Fold school in Little Hulton, but Jack Stanley took him under his wing. |
The Guardian | Victory for Assad looks increasingly likely as world loses interest in Syria The Guardian In recent months, as supplies of aid, money and weapons to Syria's opposition have dwindled, it had clung to the hope that ongoing international political support would prevent an outright victory for Bashar al-Assad and his backers. Not any more. Rules for Reconstruction in Syria |
Homage to Syria The Herald And even some Western radicals blame Syria. The get-go Noam Chomsky wanted regime change. And “a thousand and one” other leftists honoured the Kurds in northern Syria and other revolutionary illusions rather than say anything good about the Syrian ... |