Turkey-backed Syrian rebels attack Kobane
ARA News Turkey-backed rebel groups in Syria launched on Tuesday an offensive on a Kurdish village in Kobane district, in northern Syria. The Islamist rebels based in northern Aleppo shelled the...
View ArticleTurkey sends military reinforcements into Syria amidst intensifying clashes...
ARA News The Turkish authorities on Wednesday sent new military reinforcements into northern Syria, including troops, vehicles and equipment, local sources reported. According to the Syrian Observatory...
View ArticleTurkey-backed rebel group refuses to attack Kurdish towns
ARA News The Descendants of Saladin Brigade has decided not to participate in the coming offensive against Afrin city. The brigade is allied to the Turkish Army and has received support from the US....
View ArticleRussia, Iran and Turkey discuss Syria safe zones
Powerbrokers Russia, Iran and Turkey struggled Wednesday to hammer out details on a plan for safe zones in Syria at a fifth round of peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana. Moscow and Tehran, which...
View ArticleSyrian army extends ceasefire in the south
The Syrian army said on Thursday it had extended a unilateral suspension of combat operations in southern Syria through the end of Saturday. However, rebels said the ceasefire had already been violated...
View ArticlePYD says Kurds determined to expel Turkish forces from northern Syria
ARA News The Kurdish Democratic Union Party in Syria (PYD) said they will expel the Turkish military and Turkey-backed groups from northern Syria. This comes after Turkey threatened to attack The...
View ArticleUS, Russia reach Syria ceasefire deal
The United States and Russia have agreed to a ceasefire in southwest Syria. US officials confirmed that an understanding had been reached, shortly after President Donald Trump held his first meeting...
View ArticleInternal clashes hit rebel ranks in Syria’s Idlib
Clashes have broken out in northwestern Syria between two of the most powerful insurgent groups raising fears of widespread violence in the rebel-held province of Idlib. The ultraconservative Ahrar...
View ArticleSyrian rebels attack Russian embassy in Damascus
ARA News Syrian rebels on Sunday launched a mortar attack against the Russian embassy in the capital Damascus, causing material damage, local sources reported. According to the state news agency SANA,...
View ArticleKurdish forces foil Turkey-led attack north of Aleppo
ARA News Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) on Monday foiled an attack by Turkey-backed rebel groups in Syria’s northwestern Aleppo province, local sources reported. The Turkish...
View ArticleRussia agrees on safe zone mechanism with Syrian rebels
Russia’s defense ministry said on Saturday that its officials had signed a deal with moderate Syrian rebels at peace talks in Cairo on how a safe zone near Damascus will function. “As a result of talks...
View ArticleKurds call on Syrian rebel families to pick up bodies of killed fighters
ARA News The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) on Saturday called on the families of Turkey-backed rebels that attacked Kurdish positions in Ain Daqna on 17 July to pick up the bodies of their...
View ArticleSyrian rebel group to recruit women inspired by bravery of SDF female fighters
ARA News The deputy commander of the Army of Revolutionaries, or Jaysh al-Thuwar, Ahmed al-Sultan, said on Monday that they will start to recruit women, after being inspired by the heroism of Kurdish...
View ArticleRefugees reach Syria after truce with Hezbollah
Thousands of Syrian refugees and militants evacuated from northeastern Lebanon arrived on Thursday in central Syria in territory held by rebel and militant fighters, a monitoring said. They were bussed...
View ArticleSDF shell positions of Turkey-backed rebels in response to attacks on Kurdish...
ARA News The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday shelled positions of the Turkey-backed rebels in the Kaljibrin town in northern Aleppo. The offensive comes in response to ongoing...
View ArticleSyrian rebels shoot down regime military jet near Jordanian border
Western-backed Syrian rebels said they had shot down a Syrian military jet on Tuesday and captured its pilot in a desert area in southern Syria near the border with Jordan, where the army had recently...
View ArticleSDF general promises to liberate Syria’s al-Bab from Turkey-backed rebels
ARA News The General Commander of the SDF-linked al-Bab Military Council, Jamal Abo Jomaa, has promised the people of al-Bab city that the SDF will soon liberate their areas from the Turkey-backed...
View ArticleManbij forces vow to protect city against Syria regime, rebels
ARA News On the first anniversary of the liberation of Manbij city from ISIS, the Manbij Military Council said it will protect the city from the Syrian regime and Turkey-backed rebels. The Manbij...
View ArticleSyrian rebels desert opposition-led all-Arab force, join SDF
ARA News Arab fighters from the Baggara and Shaitat tribes in rural Deir ez-Zor have withdrawn from the Syrian Elite Forces and joined the Deir ez-Zor Military Council, according to military sources....
View ArticleKurdish forces capture ATGM missiles in Afrin
ARA News The Kurdish Asayish police force in the Afrin district, in Syria’s northwester Aleppo province, captured a car loaded with two ATGM missiles coming from the rebel-held Idlib city on the road...
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