US-backed Syrian fighters Friday seized part of a district on the western edge of the Islamic State group’s Raqa bastion and battled to advance inside the city’s east, a monitor said. The Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) broke into Raqa city for the first time earlier this week, months after they … Read more
US-led coalition forces launched heavy raids into Friday morning in support of Syrian fighters battling to oust the Islamic State group from its bastion of Raqa, a monitor said. The Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces broke into Raqa city’s east earlier this week, months after they launched an operation to capture the … Read more
Syria’s children “hit rock bottom” in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the United Nations children’s organisation says. At least 652 children died – 255 of them in or near a school – last year, a 20% jump from the number killed during 2015, Unicef said The figure … Read more
Violence against children in war-ravaged Syria was “at its worst” in 2016, the UN’s children’s agency said Monday as the conflict nears its seventh year. UNICEF said that cases of children being killed, maimed, or recruited into armed groups were the “highest on record” last year. “The depth of suffering is unprecedented. Millions of children … Read more