Violent clashes erupted in the Syrian village of Khirbet al-Ma'za in the southern countryside of Tartous, resulting in the deaths of 14 Public Security Forces personnel and three militants, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syrian war monitor.The conflict began when a patrol team from the General Security Forces, under the Military Operations Department, attempted to apprehend …
Russian war bloggers reported on Sunday that Moscow has dismissed Sergei Kisel, the general in charge of its forces in Syria after insurgents swept into the city of Aleppo in the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad in years. The military blogs were scathing about the performance of Kisel, who previously commanded Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army in the Kharkiv …
Rebel commander says it has carried out 30 operations against Syrian military targets this year. “This explains why they have continued the cowardly method of bombing people in the liberated north.” ‘Breaking the enemy’s morale’ The HTS has been targeted by government forces and the Russian air force in all the areas it controls, including swathes of Idlib and parts …
The predominantly Kurdish group Turkey blames for the November 13 Istanbul bombing says it won’t cooperate with US anti-ISIL operations. A spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls territory in northern Syria, said on Friday that “all coordination and joint counterterrorism operations” with the US-led coalition battling remnants of ISIL in Syria as well as “all the joint special …
