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US to leave a total of about 400 troops in Syria, official says The United States will leave a total of about 400 U.S. troops split between two different regions of Syria even as it withdraws most of the 2,000 troops currently in the country,... more

Syrian Crisis US to pull troops from Syria by end of April: WSJ U.S. military is preparing to pull all U.S. forces out of Syria by the end of April, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday, citing current and former... More
Syrian Crisis YPG landmines injure 3 Syrian opposition fighters near Afrin PKK terrorist group's Syrian affiliate the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) attacked Turkey-backed Syrian opposition group Free Syrian Army (FSA) near Tal Rifaat in northern... More
Americas Trump predicts all Daesh territory will be cleared next week President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that Daesh terrorist group will have lost by next week all the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria. He said the U.S.... More
Politics Assad regime illegitimate, presidential spox Kalın says The Assad regime in neighboring Syria is illegitimate and far from promising any future for the country, Turkey's presidential spokesman said on Monday. Following a Cabinet... More
Syrian Crisis Assad regime says US-led jets attacked its forces Syrian state media, citing a military source, said U.S.-led jets attacked an Assad regime forces position near the battle front against the last Daesh pocket east of the Euphrates... More
Syrian Crisis Building damaged in Aleppo war collapses, killing 11 A damaged building in the Syrian northern city of Aleppo collapsed Saturday, killing 11 people, including four children, said the Assad regime's news agency. SANA said... More
Politics Clashes between different groups in Syrian military grows Clashes between different groups within the Bashar Assad regime's military have intensified over the last two weeks, claiming the lives of more than 100 people. According... More
Politics 197 Syrian civilians killed last month by regime forces, terrorists, US-led coalition At least 197 civilians were killed in war-ravaged Syria in January by various actors, particularly by regime forces, the U.S.-led coalition and terrorist groups, such as Daesh... More
Syrian Crisis Cold kills 29 children fleeing Syria fighting: WHO At least 29 Syrian children have died in the cold weather in the past eight weeks as they tried to flee the violence in eastern Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO)... More
Syrian Crisis US court orders Assad regime to pay $302.5M over death of journalist Colvin A U.S. court has found the Assad regime culpable in the 2012 death of journalist Marie Colvin, ordering a $302.5 million judgment for what it called an "unconscionable" attack... More
Syrian Crisis YPG-led SDF blocks Syrian aid convoy east of Euphrates The People's Protection Units (YPG)-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) blocked a 10-truck convoy of humanitarian aid sent to the Syrian city of Hajin, the Russian Defense... More
Diplomacy Presidency spox Kalın, Bolton discuss Syria over phone Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın and U.S. national security adviser John Bolton discussed Tuesday recent developments in Syria, including the U.S. military's withdrawal... More
Syrian Crisis Car bomb explodes near Russian embassy in Damascus A bomb attack hit a northeastern neighborhood of the Syrian capital Damascus Thursday, state media said, in the third such explosion in a regime-held area in less than a week. Assad... More
Diplomacy US Syria representative Jeffrey set to arrive in Turkey U.S. Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey will arrive in Turkey on Wednesday to hold meetings to discuss the proposed safe zone along Turkey's border... More
Diplomacy 'Attacks in Syria show YPG unwilling to fight Daesh' Recent attacks in Syria which came after the U.S.' decision to withdraw its troops from the region shows that the People's Protection Units (YPG) is either "unable or unwilling"... More
Syrian Crisis 'No concrete steps for US withdrawal from Syria' A Russian official criticized the U.S. for not taking any action regarding the withdrawal of troops from Syria, despite repeated statements by U.S. President Donald Trump... More
War On Terror 'YPG biggest threat to Kurds in Syria' A Kurdish representative from the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) said that the biggest threat to Kurds after Daesh was the PKK terrorist group's Syrian affiliate the... More

Syrian Crisis 5 killed as car explodes at checkpoint in Syria's Jarablus Five bomb disposal experts were killed when a car bomb exploded Thursday near the Syrian opposition-controlled town Jarabulus, according to a civil defense source. The... More
Syrian Crisis Car bomb kills 14 oil workers in Syria's Deir el-Zour A car bomb on Thursday killed 14 oil workers and six Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) terrorists near a base used by U.S.-backed SDF in eastern Syria's Deir el-Zour, a war monitor... More
Syrian Crisis 5 civilians killed by regime shelling in Syria's Idlib Five civilians were killed in artillery shelling by regime forces and Iran-backed militias in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Tuesday, according to the White Helmets... More
Syrian Crisis Russia opens 'humanitarian corridors' in Syria's Rukban camp The Russian Defense Ministry has opened two "humanitarian corridors" for the refugees living in Rukban camp in Syria, Mikhail Mizintsev, the head of the Russia's National... More
War On Terror Votel meets Turkey’s most wanted terrorist in Syria Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), met Monday with NATO ally Turkey's most wanted terrorist, the head of the PKK-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces... More
Syrian Crisis 24 killed, 25 injured in twin explosions in Idlib At least 24 people, including 16 civilians, were killed and more than 25 others were injured after two bomb-laden vehicles exploded on a busy street in Syria's northwestern... More
Syrian Crisis At least 18 dead in Assad regime shelling in Syria's Idlib Regime bombardment has killed 18 civilians in the last major region outside its control in northwest Syria over the past 48 hours, a war monitor said Saturday. Artillery... More
Syrian Crisis US-led airstrikes kill nearly 12,000 civilians Roughly 12,000 civilians have been killed in the US-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in four years, a human rights commission said on Saturday. The Iraqi High Commission... More
Syrian Crisis 'Chemical weapons used more frequently than thought' Chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian civil war much more frequently than previously thought, according to a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Overall,... More
War On Terror 'Only Turkish forces should be in Syria safe zone' Only Turkish forces should be present in the planned safe zone in northeast Syria, Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Friday, reiterating that clearing the U.S.-backed... More
Syrian Crisis Thousands wait for YPG's 3-year occupation to end in Tel Rifat to return home Around 250,000 displaced residents of Syria's Tel Rifat are struggling to survive in camps set up along the Turkish border due to the three-year-long occupation of their city... More
Diplomacy Erdoğan meets Putin, Rouhani ahead of Syria summit President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Russian Black Sea port city of Sochi on Thursday... More
Syrian Crisis FSA captures 4 Daesh terrorists released by YPG in Afrin Syrian opposition forces have recaptured four Daesh terrorists, two of whom are Russian nationals, in northern Syria's Afrin, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) said... More
Syrian Crisis Syrian regime, opposition swap detainees in Al-Bab The Syrian regime and opposition groups have swapped detainees in northern Syria, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, in the latest move to build confidence between... More
Syrian Crisis Coalition strikes kill 50 civilians in Syria's Deir el-Zour At least 50 civilians, mostly children and women, were killed in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria's eastern Deir el-Zour province over the past 24 hours, local sources... More
Syrian Crisis Yemen's warring parties reach preliminary pullout deal amid setbacks As part of fragile peace gains, Yemen's government and Houthi rebels agreed on a preliminary compromise for redeploying their forces from the port city of Hodeida More

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