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  • Report: IDF strikes Iranian, Hezbollah targets near Damascus

    According to a report in Lebanon, Israeli Air Force planes circled low in the south of the country and there were "sonic booms" over Tyre.

  • A North Korean navy truck carries the

    Israel nixed North Korea offer to stop Mideast missile tech transfer

    Israel offered $1 billion in food, agriculture and medicine, but Pyongyang insisted on cash.

  • Syria accuses Israel of striking near Damascus Airport

    Strikes comes amid large scale offensive in southwestern Syria

  • A man gestures as he sits on the rubble of damaged buildings in al-Hajar al-Aswad, Syria May 21, 201

    Syrian army regains full control over Damascus after 7 years

    Earlier in the day, The Syrian government denied reports that the government forces observed a brief ceasefire with extremists on Sunday.

    By REUTERS

  • Syria seeks to crush insurgent pocket, denies evacuation deal

    The recovery of the enclave south of Damascus would mark another milestone in President Bashar al-Assad's war effort.

    By REUTERS

  • Analysis: The new war against Iran in Syria is psychological

    The shadow war with Iran in Syria is politics by other means because the grand strategy is to evict Iran from Syria.

    By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

  • SOLDIERS LOYAL to Syria’s President Bashar Assad’s forces are deployed at al-Qadam near Yarmouk.

    Syrian regime bombing Palestinian camp to root out ISIS

    UNRWA has expressed shock at the destruction and human cost of the ongoing battle.

    By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

  • Syrian government plans to retake north Homs from rebels next

    The Syrian army and its allies have for years employed siege and bombardment tactics to force rebels to surrender their enclaves and agree to be transferred to opposition territory in northern Syria.

    By REUTERS

  • A flag of Islamic State militants is pictured above a destroyed house near the Clock Square in Raqqa

    ISIS takes Damascus area after rebels pull out

    ISIS has lost almost all its territory in Syria.

    By REUTERS

  • REFUGEES FROM Syria sit next to a camp in Jordan.

    Thousands flee in first mass exodus from Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta

    Thousands of Syrian civilians fled from a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta on Thursday, crossing by foot to army positions in the first mass exodus from the besieged enclave.

    By REUTERS

  • A man runs amid dust after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma in eastern Ghouta in Damascus,

    Iran says Damascus suburbs assault to continue after U.N. ceasefire call

    The UN Security Council on Saturday demanded a 30-day truce across Syria, as one of the deadliest air assaults of the seven-year war pounded the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta outside Damascus.

    By REUTERS

  • A Free Syrian army fighter pours tea in the rebel-held town of Dael, Syria.

    US-led coalition helps build new Syrian force, angering Turkey

    The force, whose inaugural class is currently being trained, will be deployed at the borders of the area controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

    By REUTERS

  • People and security personnel look on at the area of a blast in Homs, Syria December 5, 2017

    Syrian army breaks siege of army base near Damascus

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Syrian forces had 'opened a loophole' that led them into the base.

    By REUTERS

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