Lack of Security Shaped Assad’s Coastal Heartland in 2016
Last year saw the disintegration of security along Syria’s coastal areas as terrorist bombings, wildfires and economic uncertainty crippled Assad’s key support base
Last year saw the disintegration of security along Syria’s coastal areas as terrorist bombings, wildfires and economic uncertainty crippled Assad’s key support base
Shelling kills at least seven militants in the towns of Al-Mahatta and Jawalek in the province’s rural areas
Residents in the capital are enduring long waits to obtain essential amenities like water and gas amid shortages that have created a culture of profiteering
Senior Kurdish opposition politician shifts position towards Syrian regime and says his party is seeking self-rule
State news agency SANA reports raid by government forces on Um Sharshouh village in the Homs countryside
Water ‘black market’ has reportedly emerged due to fighting near the capital’s main supplier with residents reporting a steep jump in prices
Displaced civilians take refuge in temporary housing centers after being received by Syrian Red Crescent workers, sources confirm
Disgruntled Alawite group claims responsibility for assassination of Alaa Makhlouf, personal bodyguard to Asmaa Assad
Supporters furious after images surfaced Wednesday depicting a massacre of hundreds of Syrian army soldiers in the Damascus countryside
20 buses transport militants and their families from Aleppo’s eastern neighborhoods to the province’s southwest, as civilians from Kefraya and Foua arrived to the Ramousa crossing
Alsouria Net details what rebel leaders have discussed and what has been reached so far in the projects to merge key groups after the city’s defeat
The capital’s Barzeh district has become a hub for drug trafficking to the Eastern Ghouta, as regime forces and their allied militias work to bring in drugs of all sorts, from painkillers to heroin, cocaine and hashish, claims activist
The price of gas has seen a steep rise in loyalist areas as news filtered in of the Islamic State’s capture of Palmyra and the surrounding gas fields last week
SANA correspondent confirms at least 261 people transported from the besieged towns in Idleb’s northern countryside
Foreign ministry says terrorists’ exploitation of children in recent suicide bombing indicates that sponsors are indifferent toward young Syrians’ lives
Traders in the northern province’s markets are having to barter with merchants in neighboring areas for produce as lack of availability forces prices to fluctuate
The father says that he will soon return “triumphantly to east Aleppo.” But his words do not please his son, who says: “No, I will grow up and not return to Aleppo. I will liberate Damascus… and bring down the regime.”
12-year-old Ghadir continues to smile despite losing her leg and family in regime strikes on the Damascus countryside
Coastal city mourns the death of dozens of locals from fighting on the Palmyra and Aleppo fronts, military source claims
Local sources claim militants burn buses on their way to evacuate sick and wounded from besieged towns in Idleb province
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