Jabhat Fateh al-Sham group has crushed a Free Syrian Army rebel faction in northwestern Syria, in a new attack against other rebel factions aiming at weakening the rebels and restoring the group’s influence ahead of expected [ More … ]
At least 40 fighters from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham were killed in an airstrike in Syria, to be added to the previous casualties of the group and to raise more questions about targeting them in this critical [ More … ]
As the Assad regime said it is preparing for Idlib battle after retrieving Aleppo, many of Fatah al-Sham front leaders is being targeted and killed, giving a sign that this may be te first step [ More … ]
The Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo on Sunday as fighting spread on the third day of a major rebel counter-attack to break the regime’s siege of the opposition-held part of the city, [ More … ]
Syrian rebels staged a counterattack in Aleppo with heavy shelling of government-held areas and suicidal attacks to break the siege imposed by Assad regime and its Russian allies on Aleppo’s rebel-held areas. The Syrian rebels [ More … ]
The leader of a rebel group in Syria, that has recently split from al-Qaeda, has condemned the US and Russian-brokered ceasefire, saying it places Washington and the UN on the side of Bashar Assad and [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned the US commitment to the ceasefire agreement in Syria, saying he hoped US would work to achieve their commen goal and break its ties with the “terrorists” in Syria. Under [ More … ]
One need not espouse the hardline ideology of Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham to agree with its view that the new “cessation of hostilities”, brokered by Russia and the United States, “will only serve to [ More … ]
The Syria ceasefire deal unveiled by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on September 10, is a diplomatic coup for Russia. Moscow has reconfirmed its status as a powerbroker [ More … ]
A truce in Syria brokered by Russia and the United States is set to begin at sundown on Monday, leaving the Syrian rebels under a hard choice after excluding a main fighting group from the [ More … ]
Russian Airstrikes killed at least 50 people in rebel-held areas of Idlib and Aleppo on Saturday, just hours after Russia and the US announced a ceasefire deal intended to put a stop to more than [ More … ]
A senior military commander and founding member of the Syrian rebel group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front, has been killed by a US air strike that hit a meeting of the group’s leaders, [ More … ]
Syrian rebels have announced the start of a battle to recapture the whole of Aleppo, after they broke Assad regime’s siege on the rebel-held half of the city. Jaysh al-Fatah, a coalition of rebel groups [ More … ]
A coalition of Syrian Islamist rebel groups has said it stormed an artillery base in the strategic city of Aleppo to try to end a government siege, as 300.000 civilians are trapped after Assad regime [ More … ]
Syrian rebels announced on Sunday launching a major offensive in order to break the siege laid by Assad regime on the opposition-held parts of Aleppo, where the UN estimates some 300,000 people are trapped with dwindling [ More … ]
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