Gen. Sulaiman al-Salama is the second high-ranking military officer to be arrested on corruption allegations in the past month, Zaman al-Wasl reports
International coalition and SDF using heavy force in battle to retake the city from ISIS, despite statements by Amnesty and Human Rights Watch condemning possible violations
Airstrikes incur heavy civilian losses in U.S.-led coalition efforts to force ISIS out of its Syrian stronghold
Over 280 medical centers were destroyed and 150 staff members killed in 2016, according to Syrian interim government report
British-based group singles out regime and Russian forces for their human rights violations in report documenting the deaths of more than a thousand non-combatants in 30 days, Madar al-Youm reports
Opposition media reports that family hit by strike while trying to leave the town of Tabqa, the ISIS-held Syrian town currently besieged by Western-backed SDF forces
Toxic gas attack on the Latamaneh hospital kills medic and patient, as a medical relief agency releases a report claiming over 100 hospitals were hit by Syrian or Russian strikes in 2016
SOHR reports at least 33 civilians killed in U.S. strike on a school sheltering displaced people in an ISIS-held town, while officials from 68 countries meet in Washington to hear Trump’s plan to defeat the militant group
Regime and Russian airstrikes target civilian centers in Idleb, killing and wounding many through use of vacuum missiles
Russian jets hit the northern neighborhoods of Idleb with vacuum missiles while regime warplanes carry out relentless strikes on the nearby town of Binnish
We fight in the same trench with Sweida rebels: the Southern Front
In an interview with the Chinese television station CCTV, Assad says the United States is fighting against an imaginary enemy they assume to be Syria. Following is the full text of the interview, as published by SANA
This is the outcome of the West’s bon-pour-l’Orient approach to politics in the region, dividing political power between ethnic and/or religious groups
The opposition government defense minister calls on Arab countries to support the armed opposition
Al-Jadid will publish both online and print editions
Wilkes also warned against the division of the Syrian state if Geneva did not go ahead
President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to the Chinese television CCTV. Following is the full text of the interview
Meeting discussed targeting the jihadist Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as another military objective in Syria
Top military chiefs from western and Arab countries are meeting in Amman to discuss the situation in Syria
Ariha had been besieged by at least 12 checkpoints of Assad’s forces, besides some military bases around the area
