August 20, 2019 Al Qaeda-linked Syrian militants forced to flee key rebel town The main Syrian group linked to Al Qaeda pulled out of a key rebel town following the Syrian government forces’ campaign of bombardment and airstrikes.
August 14, 2019 7 years after journalist Austin Tice was abducted in Syria, relatives fight for awareness Seven years ago today, journalist and Marine Corps veteran Austin Tice was detained at a checkpoint in Syria and kidnapped.
August 9, 2019 Kurdish-Syrian 'feminists' form giant human shield to resist Turkish incursion When the threat of an attack looms, scores of Kurdish women in every major township in their carved out canton of Rojava in northeastern Syria, routinely stand shoulder-to-shoulder with defiant faces. Amid a region ravaged by years of conflict and ISIS incursions, their formation is what they call their own human shield – a shield comprised of self-declared feminists belonging to their group called “Kongra Star” with the tagline “Woman, Life, Freedom.”
August 1, 2019 Tulsi Gabbard accuses MSNBC of pushing 'talking points' from Kamala Harris in fiery interview Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, slammed MSNBC during a contentious interview on the network, accusing an anchor of being fed "talking points" from her 2020 competitor, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.
July 26, 2019 Syrian airstrikes kill more than 100 civilians in 10 days: UN The seemingly endless Syrian war has claimed the lives of more than 100 civilians over the past ten days, the United Nations stated on Friday.
July 26, 2019 US citizen reportedly released from Syrian government detention A U.S. citizen who was detained by the Syrian regime has been released in a deal brokered by the Lebanese government, a Beirut security official announced Friday, according to Reuters.
July 25, 2019 Shocking image from Syria shows girl, 5, clinging to sister's T-shirt at bombed building A shocking photo from Syria published Wednesday shows a father in agony as his 5-year-old daughter clings to her younger sister's T-shirt while surrounded by rubble from an airstrike.
July 22, 2019 Refugee children praise ISIS, vow to 'crush' apostates, videos from Syrian camps show Children born to wives and fighters of the crumpled ISIS caliphate who are now left to fend for themselves in wretched refugee camps throughout Syria are being radicalized at increasingly younger ages, an ominous trend that's emerged as the newest front in the ongoing battle to stop terror from taking root in new generations.
July 19, 2019 Gibraltar court OKs government request to continue detaining Iran tanker The Gibraltar government has successfully renewed the detention of an Iranian supertanker for another 30 days, under suspicion that it violated European Union sanctions.
July 5, 2019 Family of kidnapped journalist Austin Tice fights to keep case alive 7 years after kidnapping: ‘This is a viable mission’ Marc and Debra Tice insist their journalist son, Austin Tice, is still alive after going missing in Syria. But nearly seven years since Tice was kidnapped, Tice’s mother says “one of the hardest nails to hit” is keeping his case in the news – and on the radar of top government officials.