New Syrian rulers pledge stability, accountability, and reconstruction after Assad’s ouster
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist leader who headed the rebel offensive, had previously announced talks on a transfer of power and vowed to pursue former senior officials responsible for torture and war crimes.
Children among 5 killed in Russian strikes on Syria: rescuers, monitor
"On December 25 at 10:00 pm (0700 GMT) Russian warplanes targeted civilian houses" on the outskirts of the town of Armanaz, in Idlib province, said Abdel Halim Shehab of the White Helmets voluntary search-and-rescue group. Members of the White Helmets, which operates in rebel-held zones of northern Syria, pulled the...Syria strikes kill 6 civilians in rebel bastion: monitor
On Friday, it said 11 pro-government forces and five HTS fighters had been killed after the jihadists launched an attack in neighboring Aleppo province a day earlier. Late last month, Syrian government bombardment killed nine civilians including six children as they harvested olives in Idlib province, reported the Observatory, which...Two civilians dead in Russian strikes in northwest Syria: rescuers
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said the strikes near Ain Shib had targeted "military bases belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)", the jihadist group that controls the bastion. Other late-night Russian strikes targeted the town of Ariha, south of Idlib city, AFP's correspondent and the Observatory...
Afghanistan: one year since the Taliban takeover
Last year, this week, the Taliban launched a final offensive to win back control of the country they ran between 1996 and 2001.Saudi Arabia executes 81 in a single day over terrorism
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it executed 81 people in one day on a variety of terrorism-related offenses, exceeding the total number of executions in the kingdom in the whole of last year. Of the 81 people, 73 were Saudi citizens, seven were Yemeni and one was a Syrian national.
Al-Qaeda leader killed in US drone strike in Syria: Pentagon
A senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said on Friday. The strike comes two days after a base in southern Syria, used by the US-led coalition fighting the Daesh group, was assaulted.
4 children killed in Syria regime shelling: monitor
Regime forces have stepped up shelling since June despite a cease-fire deal brokered by Russia and Turkey.
