The last terrorists and others who had agreed to leave the besieged Barzeh district of Damascus have done so, the Syrian capital’s governor was quoted as saying on Monday by state television, bringing the entire area under state control. Some 1,012 people, including 455 militants, left Barzeh in a bus ...
Syrian troops and allied forces have pushed back ISIL militants and US-backed opposition fighters, gaining control of a large swath of territory in the country’s strategic southern desert, Syria media said Saturday. With the new advances, the government and allied troops secured an area nearly half the size of neighboring ...