Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil 43 people are dead after a fierce government bombardment on a opposition-controlled Syrian town, casualties included children and medical staff according to a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the airstrike and shelling lasted for hours on Saturday, striking Jayrud, a town situated 60 kilometers north-east ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil A Syrian town situated near the Turkish border that has been held by Islamic State (IS) militants for over two years has been infiltrated by U.S.-backed Syrian forces after a three-week-long battle with the terror group around the town. The Syrian Observatory for Humans Rights stated that the U.S.-led coalition provided ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has warned the Syrian regime and its main military backer Russia, to respect the “frayed” ceasefire and said that its “patience was not infinite” amid mounting death tolls. The US Secretary of State addressed the Oslo Forum on conflict resolution and mediation, he stated ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil According to activists, at least 53 people, including children, have perished in the most recent government air strikes in Syria’s Aleppo. On Sunday, an unidentified war plane had crashed in countryside south of Aleppo in an area where Islamist rebel fighters are battling the Syrian army and Iranian-backed forces, said ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil Sunday brought about the resignation of the chief peace negotiator of Ayria’s main opposition bloc, who claimed he was resigning over the failure of the UN-backed Geneva peace talks to bring a political settlement to the Syria crisis. Mohammad Alloush, who is also the representative of the powerful Jaysh al-Islam ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil US-backed Syrian fighters and Iraqi forces pressed twin assaults against the Islamic State (IS) group on Wednesday, in two of the most important offensives yet against the militant group. The twin offensives marked some of the most serious ground efforts against Islamic State since the militant group declared its self-styled ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG As you can see, the migrants boat rescue captured on the camera of the coast of Libya. The Italian navy released this photo at the moment of the boat capsizing while hundreds of migrants rushed into one side to prevent the boat from submerging, but they all ended up into the sea. At least five migrants ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Two teams of suicide attackers launched coordinated assaults on Monday deep inside Syrian government territory, killing scores of people in a relatively secure region where support for President Bashar al-Assad runs high. Amaq, a news agency that is associated with the Islamic State, said jihadists from the militant group had carried out the attacks to strike ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil Militant groups in Syria have said they will no longer abide by the ceasefire unless the Syrian army ends a major offensive on their positions in the suburbs of Damascus within 48 hours. A statement with the signatures of around 29 rebel groups was released by members of the Free ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil Syrian government and allied forces including Lebanese Hezbollah fighters have retaken a large area southeast of Damascus on Thursday, the land had been under rebel control since 2012 and reportedly fell in a matter of hours. The advance is part of a wider escalation in fighting that has accompanied failed ...