Leader of Turkey-backed Syrian rebel group killed in Aleppo
ARA News ALEPPO – The military commander of the Sultan Murad Brigade, a Syrian rebel group supported by Turkey, was killed on Tuesday. Military sources reported that the commander died while fighting...
View ArticleRussia vetoes UN demand to end airstrikes over Syria’s Aleppo
ARA News ALEPPO – Russia vetoed on Saturday a resolution by the United Nations Security Council that demanded an end to air raids over Syria’s Aleppo city. The French-drafted UN resolution had also...
View ArticleSyrian rebels bomb school in Daraa, six children killed
ARA News Daraa – Syrian rebels bombed a regime-held district in the southern city of Daraa on Tuesday, causing casualties among civilians, activists reported. Rebel fighters shelled the al-Sahary...
View ArticleIslamists attack, burn evacuation buses in Aleppo
ARA News Aleppo – Jihadists from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS) attacked buses that were assigned to evacuate the ill and wounded from Kefraya and al-Foua on Sunday, setting several ablaze. The two...
View ArticleThousands evacuated from last rebel enclave in Aleppo
ِARA News Aleppo – The final evacuations from eastern Aleppo have begun. Eight buses and more than 80 cars left the city’s last rebel enclave on Wednesday, bound for Idlib Governorate. According to the...
View ArticleTurkey sends military reinforcements to Syria as fight for al-Bab rages
ARA News Rihanli – Turkey sent on Sunday new military reinforcements to its military forces and allied rebel groups in northern Syria. The Turkish support comes as its army forces and allied Syrian...
View ArticleTurkey seeks US support in battle for Syria’s al-Bab
ARA News Ankara – The Turkish government on Monday demanded the US-led coalition to provide air support to Turkey-backed rebel groups in their fight against ISIS near the Syrian northern city of...
View ArticleRussian embassy in Damascus under fire
ARA News Damascus – The Russian Embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus was hit by mortar shells on Wednesday, eyewitnesses and officials reported. Syrian rebel fighters hit the Russian Embassy with...
View ArticleSyria ceasefire holds despite sporadic clashes
A nationwide ceasefire in Syria, brokered by Russia and Turkey which back opposing sides in the conflict, got off to a shaky start after midnight on Friday, in the latest attempt to end nearly six...
View ArticleSyrian rebel groups announce freeze of peace talks
ARA News Damascus – A number of Syrian rebel groups on Monday announced suspension of talks regarding peace negotiations planned this month in the Kazakh capital Astana. About ten rebel factions issued...
View ArticleSyrian rebels fully committed to the ceasefire, but fight for Aleppo not over...
ARA News Aleppo – Abu Yousef al-Muhajir, a Syrian rebel leader and the official spokesman for the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham, said in an exclusive interview with ARA News on Monday that their...
View ArticleRussia bombs ISIS positions as Turkey-backed rebels push to Syria’s al-Bab
ARA News Aleppo – Russian warplanes on Monday launched several airstrikes near the city of al-Bab in Syria’s northern Aleppo Governorate, targeting Islamic State’s (ISIS) tactical units and fighting...
View ArticleKurds release 74 Turkey-backed rebels north Syria
ARA News Syrian Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Asayish police released 74 Turkey-backed rebels, although the rebels have repeatedly attacked Kurdish positions near Afrin in...
View ArticleSyria negotiations: Rebels vow to continue fighting if Astana talks fail
Syrian rebels vowed on Monday to continue fighting if talks fail, the spokesman for the armed opposition said during the Astana meeting which started Monday. “If the negotiations succeed, then we are...
View ArticleSyrian rebels urge Trump to fulfil his pledge to crease safe zones
Syrian rebels urged US President Donald Trump to fulfil a pledge to create safe zones in their country, but analysts doubted he would proceed with a step that could drag Washington deeper into war,...
View ArticleClashes break out between Syrian rebels and former al-Qaeda group in Idlib
ARA News Idlib – Clashes broke out on Friday between Syrian rebel groups and al-Qaeda-splinter group of Fateh al-Sham in Syria’s northwestern Idlib Governorate. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, previously known...
View ArticleRed Crescent offices under fire in Syria’s Idlib
ARA News Idlib – Offices of the Syrian Red Crescent in the northwestern city of Idlib were hit by airstrikes at midnight on Wednesday, activists reported. The strikes caused casualties among the...
View ArticleISIS says Turkey’s safe zone in Syria aimed at preventing Kurdish state,...
ARA News The latest edition of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) propaganda magazine Rumiyah, published on Saturday, suggests that the goal of Erdogan’s safe zone plan is to prevent a Kurdish state and...
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Syrian tribal leader Nawaf al-Bashir rejoins Assad regime after years of...
ARA News Sheikh Nawaf al-Bashir, leader of the Baggara tribe in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, who in 2012 defected from the regime to...
View Article51 ISIS militants killed in Turkish airstrikes in Syria’s al-Bab
ARA News Hasakah – The Turkish Airforce on Saturday launched several airstrikes on Islamic State’s (ISIS) positions in al-Bab city in northern Syria, killing and wounding dozens of ISIS militants,...
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