The Syrian military claimed to have taken full control of Qara in the Qalamoun region and to have killed a “large number of terrorists.” The Al Nusrah Front withdrew from Qara, but activists from Al Nusrah and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham say they will return. At least 68 regime soldiers were […]
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an al Qaeda-linked group, has claimed responsibility for twin suicide attacks on the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
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Abdelqader Saleh, head of the Islamist al-Tawhid Brigades, died in a Turkish hospital after being wounded in Aleppo on Nov. 14. A rebel bombing at a military base near Harasta in Reef Dimashq killed three generals, a brigadier general, and 27 soldiers. Ten fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and 18 […]
West Faces Challenge in Moving Syrian Chemical Arms Through Battlefields
A regime helicopter exploded in the sky over Jassim village in Raqqah. Kurdish YPG fighters clashed with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and rebels in Raqqah. Al Nusrah and several rebel units belonging to the sharia council captured the Koniko gas facility in Deir Izzour city, considered the […]
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A top commander in the Iraqi Abou Fadl el-Abbas brigade, which is fighting in support of the Assad regime, was killed in clashes with rebel forces outside Damascus. After fierce fighting with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, Maghaweer Baba Amr, al-Khadra’ battalion, and rebels, regime forces took over […]
Chemical Arms Monitor Debates Syrian Plan to Destroy Weapons
Tweeting Gulf Arabs Wire War Chest to Fight Assad on Every Front
Before reaching Syria, Amer Abu Ghoula was reportedly sentenced to a year in prison in Gaza for aiding those behind the kidnapping and murder of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni.
Satellite imagery from the day of Israel’s most recent attack in Syria indicates that S-125 anti-aircraft systems that were possibly in the process of being upgraded were targeted.
A regime airstrike in Aleppo killed Youssef al-Abbas, commander of the Qatari-backed al-Tawhid Brigades. Hassan Nazrallah, the head of Hezbollah, said the group would not withdraw from Syria so long as the Assad regime needed it. The Jaish al Islam, a rebel coalition linked to Saudi Arabia, issued a call for foreign fighters; a jihadist […]
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels apologize after cutting off head of wrong person
The head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party claimed that Kurdish militias have killed some 3,000 Salafists. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham issued a call for all Muslims and factions to come to the front as the group lost many fighters in recent clashes in Aleppo, and threatened to disarm or take […]
Hardened in Syrian war, Hezbollah presents new set of threats
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Private Donors’ Funds Add Wild Card to War in Syria
Islamist and al Qaeda-linked forces in Aleppo reportedly issued a declaration yesterday calling on fighters to come to the fronts to help repel an alleged offensive by regime, Hezbollah, and Iraqi Abu al-Fadl Abbas forces to retake Aleppo. The Syrian National Coalition named a provisional government for rebel-held areas, to be based in Gazientep, Turkey. […]
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As son heads to Syrian front, family in Germany plots kidnapping to bring him back
Top British intelligence and security officials testified to the “rising” threat of al Qaeda last week. One official explained that there have been 34 terrorist plots in Britain since the 7/7 bombings and most of these have ties to al Qaeda groups overseas. The officials also expressed concern over al Qaeda’s growing presence inside Syria.
A suicide truck bomb near the Kurdish Red Crescent in Aleppo killed 11 civilians and injured over 23 more. Fighting raged in Aleppo between regime and Hezbollah forces and Islamist fighters; and between Kurdish forces and Islamists. In Hasakah, the Al Nusrah Front is said to have beheaded two men, and the Islamic State of […]
The sons feared lost to al Qaeda in Syria