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A bomb disposal team affiliated with the Syrian army successfully neutralized a car bomb Wednesday in Aleppo, according to the Syrian Defense Ministry. In a statement released by the ministry’s Media and Communications Department, authorities said a vehicle loaded with Read More …
Engineering teams from Syria’s Internal Security Forces began clearing mines and improvised explosive devices on Wednesday from a key road linking the Qarah Qozak Bridge with the town of Shuyukh in eastern Aleppo province, the Interior Ministry said. The devices Read More …
Turkey has begun training Syrian forces under a security agreement signed between the two countries in August, several sources familiar with the issue told Middle East Eye. One source said around 300 Syrians, mostly soldiers, but also some police officers, Read More …
“Mine action partners continue to report casualties due to explosive ordnance, and that is happening sadly on an almost daily basis,” Mr. Dujarric explained in a press briefing on Monday in New York. Farmers and shepherds are particularly vulnerable. Since Read More …
A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said. The car detonated next to Read More …
Turkey’s allied forces have captured an entire underground ‘city’ in Manbij, previously controlled by Kurdish paramilitaries. Clashes near the Euphrates River threaten to cause a catastrophe at the Tishrin Dam. Clutching a small radio transmitter, Abu Azzam shouted at the Read More …
A powerful explosion shook Manbij in eastern Aleppo on Friday, claiming the lives of two men and injuring eight others. The blast, caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a civilian vehicle, occurred on Tajnid Street in the Read More …
At least 101 fighters have been killed in northern Syria over the past two days amid fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters, according to a war monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Sunday that Read More …
A car bomb exploded, on Friday, in the city of Manbij, northern Syria, according to the Syrian Civil Defense. Until the moment, the extent of the damage caused by the explosion remains unclear. On Tuesday, a car bomb explosion in Read More …
The Syrian military said on Saturday that dozens of its troops had been killed during an insurgent attack in northwestern Syria and that rebels had managed to enter large parts of Aleppo city, forcing the army to redeploy. The Syrian Read More …
Five people were seriously injured in a mine explosion in the canton of Afrin-Shehba on Friday. According to security forces, the victims, who belong to the same family, are four adults between the ages of 20 and 50 and a Read More …
At least four people were killed and 20 injured late Saturday in a car bomb attack that rocked a bustling market in Syria’s northern city of Azaz, according to local sources. The attack in the heart of Azaz’s vibrant marketplace Read More …
Fifteen victims were injured Saturday in a bombing terrorist attack in the Afrin district in northern Syria, sources said. The bomb in the cargo bed of a freight truck in the town center of Afrin, which is under the control Read More …
Five civilians were killed in a car bomb explosion in Jarabulus city in northern Syria, according to local sources on Monday. The fatalities occurred when an explosives-laden vehicle blew up on Sunday in the countryside of Ghandoura town, the sources Read More …
Türkiye neutralized al-Qurayshi, the so-called leader of Daesh/ISIS terrorist organization, during an operation in Syria on Saturday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. “The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) had been following the so-called leader of Daesh, code-named Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, Read More …
Turkish security forces defused a bomb planted in a truck in Syria’s northern Jerablus region, bordering Türkiye, the Turkish Interior Ministry said on Saturday. According to the ministry, police received a tip that the truck carrying a bomb was left Read More …
A Syrian civilian was killed in a terrorist attack in the northwestern al-Bab city on Wednesday, according to local sources. The victim was seriously injured and lost his life when a car laden with explosives went off near the city Read More …
SIL (ISIS) is believed to have carried out a spate of attacks in the past week in northeastern Syria, an indication, experts and monitors have said, that the group is potentially on the rise once again. A suspected ISIL attack Read More …
A commander of the Al-Rahman corps was seriously injured on Wednesday morning by an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to his car in the Al-Ashrafiyah neighborhood in Afrin, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. The Al-Rahman Legion Read More …
Anti-terrorist units arrested an ISIS leader in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Friday, local security officials said. According to a statement released by the Manbij Military Council (MMC), the MMC’s anti-terrorism unit arrested the ISIS leader Jihad Jamal Read More …