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03 Jun 2017

Assault to capture Syria's Raqqa to begin in days, Kurdish YPG says

The offensive is being waged by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State.

06 Apr 2017

Moscow says US has no objective data on monstrous crime in Syria

The Kremlin on Thursday said US allegations that Syrian forces carried out a deadly chemical attack are not based on "objective" information.

23 Mar 2017

Syrian troops besiege Islamic State held northern stronghold

Syrian government forces are besieging the last Islamic State stronghold in the northern province of Aleppo, weeks after launching an offensive to free the entire province from militants.

09 Mar 2017

Syrian forces a 'few weeks' away from Raqqa, US Marines deployed to assist

US backed Syrian forces said on Thursday they were closing in on Islamic State-held Raqqa and expected to reach the city outskirts in a few weeks, as a US Marines artillery unit deployed to help the campaign.

01 Mar 2017

United nations panel says evacuation of Syria's Aleppo was a war crime

A United nations panel says the evacuation of eastern Aleppo in December after months of siege and aerial bombing by Russian and Syrian forces was the latest in a series of war crimes committed in the six-year-old conflict.

03 Jan 2017

Syrian rebels announce peace talks with government

Several rebel groups have said they were freezing talks on planned peace negotiations with the Syrian government, citing "major violations" by the government forces to an ongoing ceasefire.

28 Nov 2016

Syria forces take third of rebel-held Aleppo, nearly 1,000 civilians flee

Government forces have retaken a third of rebel-held territory in Aleppo, forcing nearly 10,000 civilians to flee as they pressed their offensive to retake Syria's second city.

15 Oct 2016

Bashar al-Assad insists Syrian forces to clean Aleppo of rebels

Amid ongoing violence in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has insisted that the country`s armed forces must continue "to clean" up Aleppo city, even as diplomats are preparing to halt bloodshed in rebel-held areas of the city.

01 Oct 2016

Russia warns US not to attack Syrian forces

Russia has warned the US on Saturday against carrying out attacks on Syrian forces and said it would have repercussions across the country and the Middle East region.

13 Aug 2016

US-backed Syrian force captures key IS stronghold of Manbij

US-backed fighters have seized a key Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria after two months of heavy fighting and freed hundreds of civilians the extremists had used as human shields, Syrian Kurdish officials and an opposition activist group said today.

28 Apr 2016

Syrian army set for offensive to retake Aleppo: Report

A leading pro-government newspaper in Syria said on Thursday that the army is preparing a major offensive to recapture the whole of second city Aleppo and its surrounding province.

15 Apr 2016

US Secretary of State Kerry demands Russia rein in Syrian forces

Kerry's call came as a new round of fierce fighting around Aleppo overshadowed peace talks aimed at ending Syria's five-year-old civil war.

19 Feb 2016

France rejects Russian UN text on Syria, slams `dangerous` escalation

France on Friday rejected a Russian draft UN resolution aimed at halting Turkey`s military actions in Syria, and said Moscow`s backing of Syrian forces had led to a dangerous escalation in the war.

07 Feb 2016

Turkey delivers aid across border as Syrian forces step up Aleppo assault

Aid trucks and ambulances entered Syria from Turkey on Sunday to help tens of thousands of people who have fled an escalating government assault on Aleppo, as air strikes targeted villages on the road linking the city to the Turkish border. Rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo, Syria`s largest before the war, are still home to 350,000 people, and aid workers have said they could soon fall to the government.

27 Oct 2015

Syrian army launches operation, kills 60 militants

At least 60 armed militants were killed on Tuesday during the Syrian forces ground offensive in the northwestern province of Idlib, Xinhua reported.

10 Oct 2015

CIA-backed Syrian rebels under Russian blitz: Officials

CIA-backed rebels in Syria, who had begun to put serious pressure on President Bashar Assad's forces, are now under Russian bombardment with little prospect of rescue by their American patrons, US officials say.

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