The video showed a number of fighters training to use personal weapons, in addition to physical training like intruding into buildings and jumping. The footage showed that this was part of special forces training to prepare for guerrilla warfare.
Captain of Syria’s national football team Jihad Qassab killed in Saidnaya prison after two years in captivity
Commander of new group says opposition aims to work within an organized body to become a single, integrated force to defend ideals of the revolution
Major transport route cut by loyalist fighters protesting regime’s arrest of a drug dealer from Oum Haratin
“The guarantee of returning to the regime’s embrace requires making specific concessions, the most important of which is giving information about what is happening inside the areas and cities which it is trying to make a settlement with”
Warplane crashes after conducting combat mission against ISIS militants east of Damascus
Key rebel group rejects claims that Tahan was appointed to the post after former commander was killed in suspected coalition air strikes
Coalition says any attempt by the regime to terrorize and psychologically pressure civilians into leaving besieged areas would signal an end to any proposed ceasefire in “a glaring fashion”
Rebels take control over a number of villages including Qasajik, Qarah Ghouz and Tel Shaeer on the western side of the village of Al-Rai on Sunday
Primary and secondary students return to classes as education directorate announces repairs have been finished on dozens of schools throughout the country
Courses include a three-month attachment at a local hospital each year where students helped treat patients and practice first aid on electronic manikins
Syrian president celebrates Eid holiday in Damascus suburb after army recaptured the rebel-held district in August following four years of siege
Syrian envoy to UN says country’s humanitarian situation has become politicized in a consistent pattern within UN statements and reports
Dozens of locals of the Homs neighborhood demonstrate against regime attempts to empty the city of thousands of inhabitants
Capital witnessing an increase in the number of women in work usually undertaken by men, as many have suddenly become the primary breadwinner for their families
Numerous areas targeted by suicide bombers in a number of cities across Syria, killing and injuring scores of civilians
Sources claim the displacement is the result of recent clashes in the areas to the north which rebels have managed to seize
With 169 documented cases of of poison gas use by the regime since 2013, Assad is still free, despite UNSC and US declarations to respond with force to use of chemical weapons
Project launched in cooperation with the UNDP aims at restoring around 600 stores damaged or destroyed by conflict
Dozens of Jaish al-Fateh were either killed or injured in raids by the Syrian army air force on their positions to the south and west of Aleppo city
