Syria’s military said Monday it has retaken the last neighborhoods in southern Damascus held by the Islamic State group and declared the Syrian capital and its surroundings “completely safe” from militants for the first time in nearly seven years. Reading an army statement on Syrian TV, Gen. Ali Mayhoub said […]
Jim Mattis: U.S., Turkey “finding common ground” over fight in Syria
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday the United States and Turkey are having an open dialogue about their growing differences over the fight in Syria, and are “finding common ground.” Speaking at the close of a NATO defense ministers meeting, Mattis presented a more calm and understated view of […]
Victory! ISIS militants retreated from last stronghold in Syria
Islamic State militants withdrew Thursday from their last stronghold in Syria, a strategic town near the border with Iraq, following a government offensive that has effectively left the extremist group’s fighters dispersed in villages and small towns in the desert.0020 The Syrian military declared the town liberated after intense battles […]
Radical Islamic terror massacre uncovered
The bodies of 67 Syrian civilians has been found in a central town in Syria, that was retaken from Islamic State by government troops over the weekend. Many of the bodies have been identified as kills by the Islamic State group. News erupted late Sunday of the gruesome find. Number […]
Victory! Syria’s Raqqa LIBERATED from Islamic State
U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants on Tuesday, a senior commander for the force said, adding that clearing operations were underway to remove land mines left behind and search for the extremist group’s sleeper cells. Brig. Gen. Talal Sillo told The Associated Press that […]
Local residents help U.S. troops defeat ISIS in Syrian city
Some 250 residents of Syria’s Raqqa province Thursday became the latest batch to graduate from a brief U.S. training course, part of an internal security force to hold and secure areas as they are captured from Islamic State group militants. The graduation ceremony in the desert town of Ain Issa, […]
U.S. woman runs school in Al-Qaeda run territory
When Syria’s uprising broke out, Rania Kisar left her job in the United States and returned home to join what she dreamed would be the ouster of President Bashar Assad and the building of a new Syria. Her main focus these days has been to keep al-Qaeda-linked militants from taking […]
Israel BLASTS Syrian forces after bombing
Israel’s military says aircraft struck a Syrian military post that earlier fired a mortar into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights. It said the Syrian shell caused no injuries Friday, the latest in several such incidents of this week. The fire was spillover from battles in the Syrian civil […]
ISIS is surrounded! U.S.-backed forces seize last road leading to terror positions
U.S.-backed fighters have seized the last road into Raqqa and are moving eastward along the river south of the city, almost completing the siege on the militants’ de-facto capital, U.S. officials and a Syria war monitor said Thursday. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition told The Associated Press that the […]
Syria SCARED of Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, U.S. threats
Syria’s government is taking seriously the U.S. warning against launching another chemical weapons attack, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters traveling with him to Brussels, Mattis noted there has been no such attack since the White House issued a surprise statement Monday night that threatened President Bashar […]