BEIRUT — The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago. The […]
DAMASCUS — Overnight strikes attributed to Israel by a Syria war monitor destroyed a defence ministry research centre in northern Damascus and damaged about 10 navy ships in coastal Latakia. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Monday that “Israeli warplanes” had launched strikes on military targets including “the Barzeh scientific research centre” and naval […]
DAMASCUS — A war monitor says that Israel has “destroyed the most important military sites in Syria” with around 250 air strikes since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad’s government. The strikes targeted airports and warehouses, aircraft squadrons, radars, military signal stations, and multiple weapons and ammunition depots over the last 48 hours, the Britain-based […]
DAMASCUS — Syria’s rebels said Sunday the leader of Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, arrived in Damascus hours after fighters seized the capital and said they ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Identifying him by his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, the statement on Telegram said he had “knelt down prostrating to God in thanks” […]
DAMASCUS — A fresh Israeli missile attack targetted the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus, triggering a response from the Syrian air defence system, the media reported. The Syrian army said on Thursday in a statement that the “Israeli enemy” carried out an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, […]