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Report: 10,000 Iranian Militants Killed in Syria

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented the death of 499,657 people since the outbreak of the Syrian uprising.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Regime Rallies Support for Russia

Official media in Damascus is busy mobilizing public opinion to support Russian President Vladimir Putin in his war on Ukraine, amid news of Syrian fighters filling out registration requests to go to fight alongside Russian forces. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, confirmed that more than…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fears Mount Over Iran’s Use Of Lebanon Front To Respond To Israeli Raid In Syria

Fears mounted in Lebanon over a possible Iranian retaliation from the south of the country, after Tehran vowed to respond to the killing of two Revolutionary Guards officers in Syria following an Israeli raid. On Tuesday, the IRGC announced the death of two of its officers in an Israeli bombardment…

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Iran Vows to Avenge the Death of 2 IRGC Members in Syria

Israel awaits with anticipation Iran's retaliation for the airstrike on Syria that killed four people on Monday, including two of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Syrian state media said that two civilians were killed during the attack, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said they were two…

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800 Iraqi Refugees Return Home From Syria

Eight hundred Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria on Thursday and hundreds more are to follow, a Syrian official in the region's Kurdish semi-autonomous administration said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first group left on buses via the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing. The Iraqi government has "agreed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

ISIS Widow in NE Syria: I Couldn’t Believe I Got Rid of Him

“I couldn’t believe I got rid of him and his oppression,” with these words Aisha Al-Ahmad, a minor and wife of an ISIS fighter, started telling her story to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Al-Ahmad lives with her family in the Rumailah neighborhood, the largest neighborhood in the city…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hezbollah Running Secret Prison Near Syria's Palmyra

The Lebanese Hezbollah party has recently set up a new secret prison in Syria, revealed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Director of the UK-based monitor Rami Abdul Rahman said the facility was set up west of Palmyra city in Homs' eastern countryside in central Syria. He told Asharq Al-Awsat…

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Kurds Locked in Tense Syria Prison Standoff with ISIS

US-backed Kurdish forces tightened the noose Tuesday around ISIS fighters hunkering down inside a Syrian prison, with both sides facing a bloodbath or talks to end the five-day-old standoff. Around 100 ISIS fighters attacked Ghwayran prison in the northeastern city of Hasakeh on January 20, in their biggest military operation…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Monitor: ISIS Attacks Syria Prison, Frees Militants

ISIS attacked a Kurdish-run jail in northeast Syria on Thursday, freeing fellow militants, a war monitor reported without specifying how many escaped, AFP reported. A car bomb hit the entrance of the Ghwayran prison and a second blast went off in the vicinity before ISIS militants attacked Kurdish security forces…

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