Syria

Soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin received parliamentary approval to send their troops to Syria, the military jets carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Northern Syria. However, their operations will be…

Hyderabad, Sep 11: A Dubai-based Indian woman allegedly recruiting youth for terror outfit ISIS in Syria and Iraq was extradited here on Friday and arrested on arrival. The woman has been identified as Nicky Joseph alias Afsha Jabeen.…

Paris, Sep 2: Director-General of Unesco Irina Bokova on Tuesday "expressed profound dismay" and condemned the destruction of the temple of Bel in Syria's Palmyra. She said the site was "a construction unique in design and one of the…

After spending 50 years looking after the ancient city of #Palmyra, Syrian Scholar and Archeologist Khaled Asaad was beheaded by ISIS at the age of 82. His mutilated body was hanged on a column at the main square of the historic city.…

US President Barack Obama said that local forces should be the main forces to fight the extremist group the Islamic State (IS) and currently there was no plan for his administration to send more troops abroad. Obama on Monday told…

At least 146 civilians were killed and more than 200 others wounded over the last 24 hours by the Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Syria's predominantly-Kurdish city of Kobane, a monitor group reported on Friday. Medical sources in…

Washington, May 22 (IANS/EFE): President Barack Obama said in an interview published Thursday that the US is not losing the fight against the Islamic State radical group in Iraq and Syria, but he acknowledged that it will be necessary to…

Beirut, May 20 (IANS/EFE): At least 170 Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed since Sunday in airstrikes carried out by the US-led international coalition in addition to Kurdish attacks in the northeastern province of al-Hasakah,…

At least 30 Syrian rebels and 12 members of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group died during clashes on Wednesday morning in western Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. The IS extremists managed to regain control…

At least 220,271 people have been killed, 67,293 of whom were civilians, since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in mid-March 2011, according to figures released by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Thursday. The NGO…