A Hamas delegation will visit Syria later this month, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, in a move by the Palestinian Islamist group to rebuild ties after shunning President Bashar al-Assad for …
US military kills three senior Islamic State leaders in Syria strikes
US strikes knocked off the jihadist group’s second-highest Syrian commander and a smuggler believed to have helped kidnap and behead Kurdish officials.
US raid in Syria kills Islamic State insurgent, captures 2
U.S. officials say that U.S. special operations forces conducted a raid in northeast Syria overnight, killing an Islamic State insurgent who was involved in smuggling weapons and fighters …
After Syria raid, U.S. kills Islamic State militants in air strike
The U.S. military said it carried out an air strike on Thursday in northern Syria that killed two Islamic State members including a leader it named as Abu-Hashum al-Umawi.
Cholera spreads in Syria as displacement camps on high alert
Fears of a cholera outbreak in Syria are growing after authorities revealed that part of the Euphrates River has been contaminated.
JCC to hold Jordanian-Syrian economic forum in Damascus
The Jordan Chamber of Commerce (JCC), in cooperation with the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce, is scheduled to hold a Jordanian-Syrian economic forum next Saturday in Damascus, the JCC …
Rare clashes erupt between jihadist group, Turkey-backed faction in Syria’s Idlib
Sham, affiliated with the Turkish-backed FSA, due to differences over the alleged opening of a commercial crossing with the Syrian government-held areas in the eastern Idlib countryside.
Turkey’s Erdogan can meet Syria’s Assad “when right time comes”
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he could meet with Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad when the time was right and would not rule that out, reinforcing tentative to thaw ties between …
North Macedonia Blacklists 15 Islamic Extremists
North Macedonia has blacklisted fifteen suspected extremists, suspected of fighting or helping finance radical groups like ISIS and ID in Syria and Iraq … of any property, directly or indirectly.
Syrian government gears up for major military operation against IS in the desert
Syrian government forces are deployed in the Syrian desert in preparation for a large campaign against the Islamic State.