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Syria government bombardment kills 16 civilians near Damascus: Monitor

A Syrian government bombardment killed 16 civilians on Saturday across the besieged opposition enclave of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor group said. Eastern Ghouta has been under government siege since 2013 and its estimated 400,000 inhabitants are suffering severe shortages of food and medicine. On Saturday, a barrage of Syrian artillery fire hit a market in […]

Israel strikes Syrian military base west of Damascus: State media

Israel fired missiles at a military site in the Damascus countryside late on Monday, and Syrian defence systems shot down three of the projectiles, Syrian state news agency SANA said. Sounds of explosions were heard from the village of Jamraya, west of Damascus, and smoke was seen rising from the area, witnesses told Reuters. The UK-based […]

Syrian man identified as suspect in London train bombing

A Syrian man was on Monday identified as one of two people arrested over the bombing of a London tube train last week. Yahyah Farroukh, a 21-year-old originally from Damascus, was pictured being stopped by police outside a fried chicken shop in the Hounslow area of west London on Saturday night. He and another man, […]

Mortars hit Russian embassy in Damascus, seven injuries reported

The Syrian civil war has seen most of the news centered around the fighting in Raqqa and along the Israeli border. But on Sunday the war came to Damascus, although in a limited way as one of the forces opposing President Assad dropped two mortar rounds at the Russian Embassy in Damascus. One of mortar […]

Mortars Hit Russian Embassy in Damascus, Seven Injuries Reported

The Syrian civil war has seen most of the news centered around the fighting in Raqqa and along the Israeli border. But on Sunday the war came to Damascus, although in a limited way as one of the forces opposing President Assad dropped two mortar rounds at the Russian Embassy in Damascus. One of mortar […]

Syrian government denies U.S. accusation of crematorium at prison

The Syrian government on Tuesday denied U.S. accusations that a crematorium had been built at one of its prisons that could be used to dispose of detainees’ remains. A foreign ministry statement published by state news agency SANA said the U.S. administration had come out with “a new Hollywood story detached from reality” by alleging […]

Syrian Forces Claim to Have Taken Damascus Suburb

The forces of the Syrian Army have claimed to have taken parts of a Damascus suburb away from Syrian rebels. Syrian state-run television has reported the Army has taken a major suburb on the east side of the city, driving out the rebels. The opposition Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels remain in […]

Trump counters sarin gas with Tomahawk cruise missiles

59 American cruise missiles rained down on Syria yesterday as punishment for the Assad regime allegedly deploying chemical weapons against civilians in Idlib.  The chemical weapon used was most likely sarin gas, a nasty type of nerve agent that causes respiratory failure.  Images from Syria showed dead women and children, limp and lifeless as if someone […]

Syrian forces and rebels fight fierce clashes in northeast Damascus

Syrian rebels launched a major offensive on Sunday that brought them close to the heart of the Old City of Damascus, and government forces responded with intense bombardments of rebel-held areas. The escalation, reported by witnesses, state TV, rebel sources, and a monitoring group, marked a bid by the rebels to relieve army pressure on […]

Dozens killed in suicide attacks on Syrian uprising anniversary

BEIRUT — Suicide bombers killed dozens of people in the Syrian capital on Wednesday, the sixth anniversary of anti-government protests that devolved into one of the deadliest wars of the century. Syrian state media said a first attacker detonated his explosives outside the largest courthouse in Damascus, known as the Justice Palace. Hours later, it reported that […]