Jul 27 Syrian rebel town pounded, 11 killed in market airstrike By Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press A Syrian government airstrike hit a busy open-air market in the country's northwest on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, most of them children, according to activists. Continue reading
Jul 22 Syrian airstrikes kill dozens as fighting escalates By Zeina Karam, Associated Press Syrian government forces launched their offensive in Idlib province in late April, but the troops have made little progress since the push started. Continue reading
Jul 04 Watch 4:13 News Wrap: Magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Southern California In our news wrap Thursday, a powerful earthquake shook Southern California. The magnitude 6.4 quake, the strongest the area has felt in 20 years, was centered about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Experts warned strong aftershocks could follow. Also,… Continue watching
Jul 04 Gibraltar detains supertanker with Iranian oil, believed to be Syria-bound By Aritz Parra, Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Authorities in Gibraltar said they intercepted an Iranian supertanker Thursday that was believed to be breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Tehran's crude oil to war-ravaged Syria. Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch 7:29 Idlib's 'relentless' onslaught vs. northeastern Syria's 'fragile stability' In northwest Syria, Idlib province -- the final stronghold of opponents of the Assad regime -- is under relentless attack, and a source of tension between Syria and Turkey. Land liberated by the U.S. and its Kurdish allies in northeast… Continue watching
Jun 08 Syrian soccer goalie who became rebel icon dies in battle By Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Abdelbaset Sarout, 27, rose to fame as a player for his home city of Homs and won international titles representing his country. Continue reading
May 27 Syrian air raids hit crowded residential areas in Idlib By Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press At least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble, rescuers and activists said Monday. Continue reading
May 22 Watch 5:31 In besieged Idlib, young Syrians say Trump is the only person who can save them In Syria’s Idlib province, residents fear the worst humanitarian crisis in eight years of war. A deal signed last year was supposed to make it a demilitarized buffer zone, but Syrian and Russian forces have unleashed an onslaught, catching millions… Continue watching
May 16 Why it's so hard to grasp the sum of the Islamic State's archaeological looting By Fiona Greenland, James Marrone, Oya Topçuoğlu, Tasha Vorderstrasse, The Conversation Looted artifacts are believed to be a significant source of income for the Islamic State, but it is difficult to apply a dollar value to historic sites. Now, a paper in the International Journal of Cultural Property offers the first… Continue reading
May 13 Watch 7:16 In Syria, more than 100,000 have entered Assad's prisons -- and never returned While one phrase of Syria's brutal nine-year civil war may be concluding, the systemic forced disappearance, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Syrians has not ceased. Amna Nawaz talks to Anne Barnard of the Council on Foreign Relations… Continue watching