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A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck 28 km east of the central city of Hama, according to the Syrian National Earthquake Centre.

On a pontoon bridge connecting East and West Mosul, residents of a city shattered by the battle to expel ISIS cross back and forth trying to rebuild their lives from the rubble.

Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when ISIS group jihadists shelled a government-controlled neighbourhood of Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor city, a monitor said.

The Syrian army killed ISIS "minister of war" among other senior figures in the group in operations east of the northern city of Aleppo. The man was identified as ISIS war minister Abu Musab al-Masri.

The ISIS on Saturday launched one of its fiercest assaults yet on the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, leaving more than 30 regime fighters and jihadists dead.

The Syrian military on Tuesday urged rebels to pull out of east Aleppo and allow civilians to also leave, as it pressed an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector.

Syrian government forces seized ground from rebels north of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on the city's opposition-held east as it came under fierce air strikes in a major offensive by the Russian-backed army.

With rebels and government forces each promising to unite the divided city, Aleppo is once again a main battlefield in Syria's devastating civil war. Relentless shelling and airstrikes have killed more than 300 civilians in the city since rebels broke through a government blockade of the opposition-held east on July 31. A photo of five-year-old Omr...

At least 50 ISIS group fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours in an advance by Syrian government forces east of Aleppo city, a monitor said on Sunday.

The ISIS abducted at least 400 civilians including women and children after capturing new territory in an assault on Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said today.

The ISIS has expanded its control inside an eastern Syrian city after clashes and suicide attacks killed at least 26 regime fighters, a monitor said.

Pope Francis on Friday deplored the "escalation of violence affecting innocent civilians" in the Middle East, from Syria to Iraq, Jerusalem and the West Bank, and urged the international community to act.

Islamic State fighters tightened their grip on the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Thursday and overran Iraqi government defences east of Ramadi, the provincial capital that they had seized five days earlier.

Pope Francis called for reconciliation in Syria on Saturday as he led a mass peace vigil on St Peter's square and millions of Catholics worldwide were joined by other faiths in a day of fasting and prayer.

Syrian warplanes hit a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Tuesday, an AFP journalist said, as fighting raged in several neighbourhoods of the embattled northern city. Government forces also shelled two flashpoint districts of the city and a hospital in the east which also been hit only two days ago and was largely empty of patients and medical staff,...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck 28 km east of the central city of Hama, according to the Syrian National Earthquake Centre.

On a pontoon bridge connecting East and West Mosul, residents of a city shattered by the battle to expel ISIS cross back and forth trying to rebuild their lives from the rubble.

Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when ISIS group jihadists shelled a government-controlled neighbourhood of Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor city, a monitor said.

The Syrian army killed ISIS "minister of war" among other senior figures in the group in operations east of the northern city of Aleppo. The man was identified as ISIS war minister Abu Musab al-Masri.

The ISIS on Saturday launched one of its fiercest assaults yet on the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, leaving more than 30 regime fighters and jihadists dead.

The Syrian military on Tuesday urged rebels to pull out of east Aleppo and allow civilians to also leave, as it pressed an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector.

Syrian government forces seized ground from rebels north of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on the city's opposition-held east as it came under fierce air strikes in a major offensive by the Russian-backed army.

With rebels and government forces each promising to unite the divided city, Aleppo is once again a main battlefield in Syria's devastating civil war. Relentless shelling and airstrikes have killed more than 300 civilians in the city since rebels broke through a government blockade of the opposition-held east on July 31. A photo of five-year-old Omr...

At least 50 ISIS group fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours in an advance by Syrian government forces east of Aleppo city, a monitor said on Sunday.

The ISIS abducted at least 400 civilians including women and children after capturing new territory in an assault on Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said today.

The ISIS has expanded its control inside an eastern Syrian city after clashes and suicide attacks killed at least 26 regime fighters, a monitor said.

Pope Francis on Friday deplored the "escalation of violence affecting innocent civilians" in the Middle East, from Syria to Iraq, Jerusalem and the West Bank, and urged the international community to act.

Islamic State fighters tightened their grip on the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Thursday and overran Iraqi government defences east of Ramadi, the provincial capital that they had seized five days earlier.

Pope Francis called for reconciliation in Syria on Saturday as he led a mass peace vigil on St Peter's square and millions of Catholics worldwide were joined by other faiths in a day of fasting and prayer.

Syrian warplanes hit a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Tuesday, an AFP journalist said, as fighting raged in several neighbourhoods of the embattled northern city. Government forces also shelled two flashpoint districts of the city and a hospital in the east which also been hit only two days ago and was largely empty of patients and medical staff,...