REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG The Lebanese group Hezbollah has confirmed that their top commander known as Mustafa Badreddine died as a result of alertly shelling fired by Jihadists in Syria. At the same time, Hezbollah leaders are accusing Israel as being involved in the killing of their high commander. They say that they will response to this assassination at the ...

Exclusive to the Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil As retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on the Turkish border town of Kilis, Turkish shelling killed 55 Islamic State insurgents in northern Syria, military sources say. In recent weeks the town has been assaulted with rockets where around 20 have perished and 70 have been left wounded according to ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil After spending 10 months in captivity, three Spanish freelance journalists have arrived in Madrid in apparent good health following their ordeal of being kidnapped in Syria last year. “Journalists Jose Manuel Lopez, Angel Sastre and Antonio Pampliega who were kidnapped in Aleppo in northern Syria almost 10 months ago have arrived at Torrejon air base,” the ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Bombing at Syrian refugee camp kills at least 28 people and many more injured. At least 28 people were killed when warplanes struck a refugee camp Thursday in Syria, the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, with many of the dead women and children. Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the London-based group, told the ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil Almost 28 people perished in an air strike, which struck a Syrian refugee camp, near the Turkey border on Thursday, the British-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The group also said that around 50 people were injured in the attack. Mamun al-Khatib, director of the Aleppo-based pro-rebel Shahba Press news agency, accused the ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil Syria has finally given in to the persuasions of Russia and the US on Tuesday and extended the fragile truce to the divided city of Aleppo as reported by United States officials and Syrian state television. The agreement took effect on Wednesday at 12:01am Damascus time, Secretary of State John Kerry stated. The details of the ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil The Syrian army has declared a temporary lull in fighting in various western areas of the country and attempts to include Aleppo, which recently has been the focus of all violence, in those terms according to Russia. The escalation of violence in Aleppo was the main cause of the failed cessation of hostilities between Syria and ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil The rebel-held area of Syria’s Aleppo has suffered a series of air strike attacks, destroying the al-Quds hospital, killing at least 27 people including three children and the city’s last pediatrician, Dr. Mohammed Wassim Moaz. The air strike delivered a direct blow to the hospital destroying it and killing at least three doctors according to international ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil A new offensive by the Russian military and its Syrian allies may be underway in and around Aleppo as the partial truce in Syria nosedives and peace talks weaken. According to the Pentagon which was quoted last week, forces loyal to the Syrian government were beginning “to mass and concentrate combat power around Aleppo.” “It is ...

REPORTED BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG Turkish security forces arrested an ISIS militants in the city of Gaziantep that is 10 Kilometres from Syrian border where militants carried out series of bombings that killed 10 people and injured many others. Meanwhile, the Turkish government is now providing Syrian refugees with work permits which was impossible before. On the other news on ...