The Latest Breaking News from Syria

The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented the release of 547 detainees from Syrian prisons during the period between early May till mid-June. It stressed in a report on Saturday that there are some 132,000 people still detained or held in regime prison. The report confirmed that between May 1…

Ahmad Merhi, who travelled from Sydney to Syria, says he is now stateless as he awaits hanging

Turkey has resumed the back-and-forth transfer of Syrian mercenaries operating in Libya following the decision in late June to halt the transfer process until the end of 2022. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed on Wednesday that nearly 250 Syrian mercenaries were sent back to Syria from Libya…

Kyiv said Wednesday it was severing relations with North Korea, as Pyongyang confirmed it was formally recognizing two self-proclaimed pro-Russian republics in eastern Ukraine. North Korea's recognition of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic came after another Russian ally, Syria, made the same move last month, AFP…

The U.S. military said it killed a top Islamic State leader and seriously wounded another in a drone strike in Syria.

Maher al-Agal, said to be responsible for developing networks outside Iraq and Syria, was killed in a drone strike

The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the ISIS group in Syria in a drone strike. US Central Command said in a news release that Maher al-Agal was killed Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the ISIS group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said there were…

Russia has succeeded in limiting the renewal of a crucial UN aid operation from Turkey to northwest Syria to six months.

Maher al Agal was targeted and killed outside Jindayris, says Washington

The US says the raid in northwest Syria, killed Maher al-Agal and ‘seriously injured’ one of his associates.

The Pentagon says it has killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike