Islamic State fighters capture airbase eastern Syria
ARA News ERBIL – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Wednesday captured a military airport in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, local sources reported. Subsequent to clashes with the...
View ArticleUS-led coalition cooperates with Syrian rebels to cut off ISIS supply line on...
ARA News HASAKAH – The US-led coalition said on Friday that it has been coordinating with Syrian rebel fighters in a new operation aimed at cutting off a main supply line for the Islamic State (ISIS)...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda militants kidnap US-backed Syrian rebel leader
ARA News ALEPPO – US-backed Syrian rebels on Sunday accused the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front of storming their headquarters in the northwestern Idlib province and abducting their commander and other...
View ArticleRussia: We can’t ignore violations by rebels and ISIS against Syrian Kurds
ARA News QAMISHLI – The Russian government on Friday said the crimes and abuses by Syrian rebels and ISIS against Kurdish civilians in the governorate of Aleppo cannot be ignored. “We have taken note...
View ArticleSyrian rebels fail to reopen Aleppo supply line
ARA News ALEPPO – Syrian regime forces have repelled a fierce offensive by rebel factions seeking to reopen their only supply route into Aleppo city, killing at least 26 rebel fighters, military...
View ArticleSyrian rebels fight back in Aleppo, recapture key district from regime troops
ARA News ALEPPO – Syrian rebel fighters on Tuesday launched a fierce offensive on positions for the pro-regime forces in Aleppo city, northern Syria, and recaptured a key district. Rebels of the...
View ArticleKurdish YPG forces combatting Islamists in Syria’s Aleppo
ARA News ALEPPO – Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) were engaged in heavy clashes with Syrian Islamist rebels in the northern Aleppo province on Saturday. The clashes centred in...
View ArticleKurdish YPG forces bomb strongholds of Syrian Islamist rebels in Idlib
ARA News AFRIN – Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) on Wednesday launched an offensive on strongholds of Syrian Islamist rebel groups in the northwestern Idlib province. The YPG...
View ArticleSyrian Islamist opposition group: Nusra breaking ties with al-Qaeda is not...
ARA News ALEPPO – Captain Islam Aloush, the official spokesman for the Syrian rebel faction of al-Islam Army, said Saturday that the decision of the Nusra Front to split from al-Qaeda “is not enough”...
View ArticleDamascus: Islamic State arrests 50 people for smoking
ARA News DAMASCUS – Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) have arrested more than 50 people in the Yarmouk district south of the Syrian capital Damascus on charges of “smoking”, activists reported on...
View ArticleAfter breaking Aleppo siege, Syrian rebels threaten to attack Kurds
ARA News ALEPPO – Major Yasser Abd al-Rahim, Commander of the rebel group of Fatah Halab Operations Chamber in Aleppo, said on Tuesday that they will attack the Kurds in Aleppo, after the mainly...
View ArticleKurdish YPG forces respond to rebel threats in Syria’s Aleppo
ARA News ALEPPO – Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) responded in an official statement to the Syrian rebels’ Aleppo Operations Chamber that said they will attack the Kurds after...
View ArticleClashes continue between Syrian opposition rebels and the Kurds in Aleppo
ARA News ALEPPO – Clashes continued on Tuesday between the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and rebel groups in Aleppo, after Syrian rebels threatened the Kurds in the city....
View ArticleAnalysts: Kurdish position more precarious after Jarabulus operation
ARA News QAMISHLI – Turkey-backed Syrian rebel groups and Turkish soldiers on Wednesday took control of the Jarabulus city in a blitz operation. Although Kurds said Turkey is now entering a quagmire...
View ArticleClashes break out between Turkish-backed rebels and Syrian Democratic Forces
ARA News MANBIJ – Clashes broke out on Thursday between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Turkish-backed rebels in northern Syria. The clashes took place near Tal Amaranth village...
View ArticleEvacuation of major rebel stronghold in Damascus seen as victory for Assad...
ARA News DAMASCUS – Thousands of Syrians started to evacuate the long-besieged city of Darayya in Damascus suburb on Friday, local sources and officials said. This comes one day after the Syrian...
View ArticleConflict between US-led coalition allies increases, one Turkish soldier killed
ARA News HASAKAH – The conflict between the Turkey-backed rebels and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) escalated on Saturday, with at least two Turkish tanks being hit by SDF forces,...
View ArticleDressed up as women, ISIS militants try to infiltrate into Syrian town
ARA News DARAA – Syrian rebel fighters in the southern front of Daraa province captured Tuesday a group of ISIS militants dressed as women while trying to infiltrate into a rebel-held town, activists...
View ArticleYPG arrests a group of Turkey-backed rebels in Syria’s Jarablus
ARA News ALEPPO – Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) arrested on Thursday a number of Turkey-backed rebel fighters near Syria’s border city of Jarablus, military sources said. The...
View ArticleTurkey sends military reinforcements to Syria’s Jarablus
ARA News QAMISHLI – Turkey sent on Saturday new military reinforcements to its army forces and allied rebel groups in the Syrian northern city of Jarablus. The Turkish support comes as its army...
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