SDF librates 2 villages during anti-Daesh operations in Raqqah

Edit Press TV 26 May 2016
According to reports, some SDF 30,000 troops have been deployed to the region.   ... Elsewhere, the Syrian army conducted operations against the Takfiri terrorists liberating several villages, destroying equipment, and killing large numbers of the militants, in the provinces of Homs, Dayr al-Zawr, Damascus and Quneitra ... ....

Coalition Strikes Hit ISIL Targets in Syria, Iraq (US Department of Defense)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. US Department of Defense). SOUTHWEST ASIA, May 24, 2016 - U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Iraq and Syria yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolveofficials reported today ... Strikes in Syria. Fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted seven strikes in Syria. ... -- Near Dayr Az Zawr, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit ... U.S ... (noodl....

Update: air strikes against Daesh (MoD - UK Ministry of Defence)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. MoD - UK Ministry of Defence) ... Monday 23 May - A Reaper attacked a terrorist checkpoint in Syria, near Dayr az Zawr; Typhoons struck a truck-bomb workshop near Mosul, mortar and rocket teams near Habbaniyah; and Tornados hit a mortar team near Fallujah. Detail ... 100% ... 100% ... Across the border, in eastern Syria, an Reaper identified a terrorist checkpoint north-west of Dayr az Zawr and destroyed it with a Hellfire missile ... 2 May ... 100%....

US-led airstrike in north Syria kills 7 civilians: Monitoring group

Edit Press TV 22 May 2016
The victims were members of the same family, the observatory said. The London-based monitoring group added that five women and a child were among the victims ... Media and local sources said the airstrikes hit al-Bukamal city in the province of Dayr al-Zawr near the border with Iraq, killing four people and inflicting heavy losses on properties ... Bomb attack kills 5 people in northeast Syria ... (© AFP) ... ....

US airdrops leaflets on Raqqah, warning residents to leave

Edit Press TV 21 May 2016
The US military is warning residents of Raqqah - the self-proclaimed capital of Daesh in Syria - to leave the city, indicating an offensive was imminent, Pentagon officials say ... “The time….has arrived ... Syrian and Russian officials said last month that the Syrian army and allied forces were planning major operations to retake the eastern cities of Dayr al-Zawr, Raqqah, and Aleppo from Takfiri militants ...  .  ....

Syria Government Forces Confront ISIS and Al Nusra, Russia Delivers Humanitarian Aid

Edit GlobalResearch 20 May 2016
The Syrian Arab Army and its allies successfully purged the southern part of DamascusEast Ghouta from militants. On May 18, Syrian forces liberated the village of Bazyna and cut off the supply line to Dayr al-Asafir. On May 19,… ... ....

'Saudi Arabia providing banned chemical munitions to Nusra Front'

Edit Press TV 19 May 2016
A senior European official says Saudi Arabia is providing members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front with internationally-banned chemical weapons ...Russia Today)  ... (© Russia Today). The development came only three days after al-Ikhbariyah Syria satellite television network reported that Daesh had fired a barrage of rockets, carrying mustard gas, at a Syrian military airport in the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr ... ....

Russian planes deliver about 40 tonnes of aid to besieged Syrian city

Edit Press TV 18 May 2016
Russian aircraft have delivered almost 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid supplies to Syria’s eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, which is under the siege of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group. “Two Russian planes airdropped 38,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid, mostly food packages and cereals, on parachutes in” Dayr al-Zawr, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily bulletin posted on its website late on Tuesday....

Syrian forces hit militants hard in Dayr al-Zawr, Dara’a, Homs

Edit Press TV 18 May 2016
Syria’s official news agency, SANA, said the army clashed with Daesh terrorists in the al-Panorama area in Dayr al-Zawr Province on Wednesday, and killed at least 20 militants ... Earlier on Tuesday, Syrian warplanes targeted Daesh positions in the neighborhood of al-Sona’ and to the west of Dayr al-Zawr airport, killing a number of Takfiri ......

Syrian forces advance against terrorists around gas field in Homs

Edit Press TV 17 May 2016
Elsewhere in Day al-Zawr Province, the Syrian jets targeted gatherings and heavily-fortified positions of the Daesh militants in the al-Sina’a neighborhood and to the west of the Dayr al-Zawr airport, according to the military source ... Daesh controls over half of Dayr al-Zawr, trapping about 200,000 civilians in the city....

Children, woman killed in US airstrikes in Syria

Edit Press TV 17 May 2016
Media and local sources said the US airstrikes hit al-Bukamal city in the province of Dayr al-Zawr near the border with Iraq on Monday, killing four and inflicting heavy losses on properties ... The coalition has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians ... Dayr al-Zawr Province links the Daesh stronghold in the city of Raqqah with territory controlled by the militant group in neighboring Iraq ... ....

Powers gather in Vienna to discuss Syria crisis

Edit Press TV 17 May 2016
Top diplomats from 17 nations have resumed Vienna talks on the Syria conflict, hoping to reinvigorate a peace effort that has effectively collapsed.  ... "The choice is Bashar al-Assad's," he told reporters in Paris last week ... The airstrikes hit al-Bukamal city in the province of Dayr al-Zawr near the border with Iraq on Monday, killing the four and inflicting heavy losses on properties ... ....

Why Islamic State Militants Care So Much About Sykes-Picot

Edit Radio Free Europe 16 May 2016
"Ironically, it was the Iraqi nationalist officers of al-Ahd al-Iraqi who were ultimately responsible for the inclusion of Dayr al-Zur within Syria ... In 1923, Baghdad-based Iraqi nationalist Muhammad Mahdi al-Basir explained the Dayr al-Zur decision ... Wilson, later asserted that Britain's acquiescence at Dayr al-Zur -- i.e., the evacuation of ......
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