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Members of emergency services evacuate an injured man on a stretcher after rockets landed near a school in Kilis, Turkey, January 18, 2016. (AFP/ILHAS NEWS AGENCY/STRINGER)
January 18, 2016, 3:12 pm
Syrian jihadist rockets hit Turkish school
One person killed and a schoolgirl injured after three explosions rock border town of Kilis
By Stuart Williams
File: An image of a starving child in Madaya, Syria, a city that has been under siege by pro-government forces for six months. (screen capture: YouTube)
January 7, 2016, 8:59 pm
Syria government to allow aid into starving town: UN
Reports from besieged areas show malnourished, starving children; monitor says at least 10 dead from starvation
By AFP
Syrian government forces escort buses carrying Syrian rebel fighters as hundreds of civilians and rebel forces began evacuating the last opposition-held district of Waer in the central city of Homs, under a deal with the Syrian regime, December 9, 2015. (Photo by AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)
December 28, 2015, 1:37 pm
Opposition evacuation of Syrian towns begins under rare truce
UN-brokered deal allows free passage for rebel fighters as regime forces complete take-back of Idlib province
By AFP
File: This image made from video made available on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, by Al-Mayadeen, a government-controlled Syrian television outlet, shows drone footage allegedly showing Syrian army airstrikes targeting Zahran Allouch, the head of the Army of Islam group near Damascus, Syria. (Al-Mayadeen via AP video)
December 28, 2015, 2:06 am
Syrian army kills 17 Islamic militants in country’s south
Detonation of booby-trapped farm marks the latest setback for rebel forces in country's four-year civil war
By Bassem Mroue
Zahran Allouch, deceased head of the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army) Syrian rebel group on July 21, 2015 (Amer Almohibany/AFP)
December 26, 2015, 11:55 am
Syrian rebels name successor to slain commander
Essam al-Buwaydhani will succeed leader Zahran Allouch, who was killed by airstrike near Damascus on Friday
By Agencies
A file picture taken June 25, 2014 shows Zahran Allouch, the leader of Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army), speaking during a press conference in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside the capital Damascus. (Abd Doumany/AFP)
December 25, 2015, 7:52 pm
Top Syrian rebel killed in airstrike near Damascus
Jaish al-Islam chief Zahran Allouch reportedly killed by Russian airstrike during a meeting to reconcile feuding groups
By Agencies
This image made from video made available by the Media Center in Moadamiyat al-Sham on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, shows a medic helping a patient at a town clinic, after an attack, in Moadamiyeh, southwest of Damascus, Syria. (Media Center in Moadamiyat al-Sham via AP)
December 24, 2015, 12:46 am
Heavy clashes, attacks in town southwest of Syrian capital
Moadamiyeh, former site of chemical attacks, sees new allegations of poison gas, barrel bomb strikes
By Zeina Karam
This file photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 shows a target hit during a Russian air raid in Syria. (AP Photo/ Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, File)
December 23, 2015, 8:36 am
Russian raids in Syria may include war crimes — Amnesty
Human rights group says Moscow lying to cover up civilian casualties and its use of banned cluster bombs
By AFP
Screen capture showing Kifah Kayyal, ex-wife of terrorist Samir Kuntar, in an interview with Al-Arabiya on December 21, 2015. (MEMRI/YouTube screen capture)
December 22, 2015, 5:48 pm
Samir Kuntar’s ex-wife welcomes death of ‘murderer’ ex-husband
Kifah Kayyal laments that 'Kuntar and Hezbollah are in Syria not to fight the Zionist enemy, but the Syrian and Palestinian peoples'
By TOI staff
Screen capture of a bomb being released from a Russian Su-34 strike fighter in Syria, taken from footage made available on the Russian Defense Ministry official website, October 9, 2015. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP, File)
December 21, 2015, 1:08 am
Strikes on northern Syrian city said to kill at least 32
Monitoring groups say Russian bombing of northwestern city targeted rebel offices; fighters are among the dead
By AP
A Hezbollah funeral for one of its fighters killed in Syria. (YouTube/Channel 4 News)
December 15, 2015, 2:20 pm
A third of Hezbollah’s fighters said killed or injured in Syria
With 1,300-1,500 dead, Iran-backed Lebanese militia, campaigning to defend embattled Assad regime, is no longer hiding its losses
By Avi Issacharoff
Sheikh Akram al-Kabi, leader of the al-Nujaba militia (MEMRI)
December 14, 2015, 6:42 am
Syria militia leader: Sunni rebels are ‘mercenaries of Jews’
Head of Iraqi group affiliated with Hezbollah berates 'deluded' Sunnis, cries 'No to Israel,' which he alludes is behind conflict
By TOI staff
Syrians evacuate victims following airstrikes on the town of Douma in the eastern Ghouta region, a rebel stronghold east of the capital, Damascus, on December 13, 2015. (AFP/Sameer al-Doumy)
December 13, 2015, 8:16 pm
31 die in regime assaults on rebels near Damascus, monitor says
Airstrikes on opposition hubs claim lives of 28 civilians in Douma and Saqba, three more in Harasta; school said among targets
By AFP
Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus, Syria, July 26, 2015. (SANA via AP, File)
December 11, 2015, 10:58 pm
Assad says will not negotiate with armed groups
Syrian president says he will not accept West's wish to have 'terrorist groups join the negotiations table'
By AP
Syrian civilians and rebel forces wait for the buses as they began evacuating the last opposition-held district of Waer in the central city of Homs, under a deal with the Syrian regime, December 9, 2015. (AFP/Louai Beshara)
December 9, 2015, 7:21 pm
Syria rebels begin leaving Homs under truce deal
Assad forces to take full control of city after rare ceasefire; evacuation comes as Syrian opposition groups hold talks in Saudi Arabia
By Maher Al Mounes
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