Islamic State left with just 8% of Syrian territory, claims Russia
The Russian military has said less than eight percent of Syrian territory remains in the control of the Islamic State (IS) as Syrian government troops supported by Russian jets have freed most of the country.
Oct 14, 2017, 08:08 AM IST
Islamic State attacks kill at least 50 in east Syria: Kurdish Red Crescent
Islamic State suicide attackers killed at least 50 people in a triple car bomb attack on Thursday among a group of refugees in northeast Syria, a medical source in the Kurdish Red Crescent said.
Oct 13, 2017, 05:36 AM IST
British jihadi 'White Widow' killed by US drone: Report
Sally Jones, a British jihadi who recruited online for the Islamic State group, has been killed in Syria by a U.S. drone along with her 12-year-old son, The Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.
Oct 12, 2017, 21:50 PM IST
ISIS targets Damascus police HQ with suicide bombers
Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the main police headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday.
Oct 12, 2017, 00:18 AM IST
Suicide bombers blow themselves up near police headquarters in Damascus
Two attackers blew themselves up near the police headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday.
Oct 11, 2017, 19:12 PM IST
Russian air strikes kill 120 IS fighters, over 60 'foreign mercenaries' in Syria
As a result of an air strike more than 60 foreign mercenaries from the former Soviet Union, Tunisia, and Egypt were killed south of Deir Ezzor.
Oct 07, 2017, 19:21 PM IST
Turkey-backed rebels in new Syria operation: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
HTS is not a party to a deal brokered by Russia, Turkey and Iran for the safe zone in the province, one of four such "de-escalation" zones across Syria.
Oct 07, 2017, 17:19 PM IST
Islamic State: Defeating the virtual caliphate
The Islamic State group may soon be defeated in Iraq and Syria but a "virtual caliphate" could be harder to conquer, experts and officials have warned.
Oct 06, 2017, 08:03 AM IST
US 'deeply disturbed' by arrest of Istanbul consulate staffer
The United States on Thursday said it was "deeply disturbed" over the arrest by Turkish authorities of a local staffer working at its consulate in Istanbul, saying the charges against him were baseless.
Oct 05, 2017, 16:29 PM IST
Islamic State's last stronghold in northern Iraq falls
Iraqi forces have captured Islamic State`s last stronghold in northern Iraq, the military said on Thursday, leaving the militant group holed up in pockets of land by the Syrian border, across which its self-proclaimed "caliphate" once stretched.
Oct 05, 2017, 16:23 PM IST
As Syria`s Raqa battle nears end, road to rescue lengthens
"Don`t close your eyes. Stay awake!" the anti-jihadist Syrian fighter yelled at his injured comrade as a Humvee whisked them across the Islamic State group`s former stronghold Raqa.
Oct 05, 2017, 11:14 AM IST
Sarin used in March Syria attack, finds chemical weapons watchdog: Sources
An inquiry by the global chemical weapons watchdog found sarin was used in a March attack in Syria on an opposition-held town, just days before the banned nerve agent killed dozens in a separate attack nearby, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Oct 05, 2017, 06:51 AM IST
Syria army ousts IS from all of Hama province: Monitor
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, is battling to oust IS from their onetime stronghold of Raqa.
Oct 04, 2017, 19:16 PM IST
Turkish President Erdogan visits Iran as ties warm amid shared fears
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Iran on Wednesday in a sign of warming ties between the two neighbours who support rival camps in Syria but both strongly oppose last week`s Iraqi Kurdish vote for independence.
Oct 04, 2017, 17:24 PM IST
Islamic State group claims deadly Damascus bomb attack
The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed a bomb attack at a police station in Syria`s capital Damascus a day earlier that killed at least 16 people.
Oct 03, 2017, 17:09 PM IST
Deadly suicide bombings hit Damascus police station
More than 330,000 people have been killed in Syria since its conflict began with protests that were met with a harsh government crackdown.
Oct 02, 2017, 22:11 PM IST
Watchdog urges UN inquiry into Iran recruiting Afghan kids to fight in Syria
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report today revealed that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been recruiting Afghan immigrant children, as young as 14, to fight in Syria and urged the United Nations to investigate the matter.
Oct 01, 2017, 20:34 PM IST
Islamic State seizes town in central Syria: Monitor
The Islamic State group today seized a town in central Syria known as a symbol of religious coexistence in a surprise attack against regime forces, a monitor said.
Oct 01, 2017, 16:40 PM IST
3,000 killed in Syria in September, deadliest month of 2017: Monitor
Syria`s war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Sunday, in the deadliest month of the conflict this year.
Oct 01, 2017, 16:38 PM IST
28 civilians, including 4 children killed in air strikes in Syria safe zone
At least 28 civilians were killed in air strikes on northwestern Syria where a planned safe zone has been overshadowed by a bombing campaign against jihadists, a monitor said Saturday.
Sep 30, 2017, 12:12 PM IST
