At least two million residents of the Syrian city of Aleppo have been left without running water, the Associated Press reports, citing the United Nations’ children’s agency. The U.N. has called for a “humanitarian pause” to allow for repairs to be made to the contested city’s infrastructure.
On Wednesday, the U.S. military announced that it was pursuing a formal investigation into the July 19 airstrike in a northern Syrian city that observers estimate killed at least 73 civilians. A subsequent airstrike in the same city “may have resulted” in yet more civilian casualties, Centcom disclosed late Thursday.
One of the two attackers who were shot dead after taking hostages and killing a priest at a Catholic church in Normandy, France, on Tuesday had twice been released from prison after attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. One of the hostages said the attackers made her husband film as they slit the…
On Saturday, the family of Marie Colvin—an American war reporter who was killed in Syria on February 22, 2012—filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in D.C.’s District Court against the Syrian government. Colvin, a longtime correspondent for The Sunday Times was killed in an artillery barrage, along with French…
After months of bureaucratic wrangling, the Obama administration has disclosed its official count of civilians killed in airstrikes outside of conventional war zones: Somewhere between 64 and 116 since 2009. Strangely enough, the administration chose to release the numbers on the Friday afternoon before a holiday…
The Wall Street Journal has reviewed a copy of an internal State Department cable, signed by 51 officials across the department’s Syria desk and submitted to the department’s “dissent channel,” calling for targeted military strikes against the Syrian government and a regime change.
On Monday, in a 20 minute speech, delivered from a Cleveland stage devoid of campaign paraphernalia, Hillary Clinton reminded Americans that, fundamentally, the world is divided into people whose lives matter and people whose lives don’t matter, and that on some level the only real difference between any two…
A series of seven nearly simultaneous suicide bombings ripped through two regime-held cities in Syria on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports, leaving more than 120 people dead and many more wounded. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
According to Agence France-Presse, Syrian state media reported Tuesday that rebel forces had launched a rocket attack on a hospital in a government-held neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, leaving at least three dead and 17 others wounded.
Virginia State Senator Richard Black, who is perhaps best known to Gawker readers as a guy who melted down at a teacher over fictional depictions of sex and violence, recently met and shook hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is best known the world over for unrepentantly slaughtering thousands of his own…
Overnight airstrikes in Aleppo have killed at least 61 people in 24 hours, Syrian activists say, including at least 27 people working at a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders. Among the casualties were six hospital staff and three children, the Associated Press reports.
The job might be a bit different, but the Islamic State apparently has HR issues just like anywhere else.
Syrian government forces have reclaimed Palmyra from the Islamic State, the Associated Press reports. ISIS has held the ancient city since May.
There’s currently a “ceasefire” in effect throughout Syria, in an attempt to stem bloodshed between Russia, Turkey, the Syrian government, and various rebel groups. It has been violated over 30 times already. To help the U.S. keep track of this humanitarian disaster, the State Department is running a war zone hotline…
According to the U.N. Commission of Inquiry, war crimes in Syria are now “rampant.” What is more: “Paradoxically, the international and regional stakeholders that are ostensibly pushing for a peaceful solution to the war are the same that continue to feed the military escalation.”
According to the United Nations, as many as 50 people were killed in northern Syria on Monday when four hospitals—including a Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) facility in Maarat al-Numan—were bombed. “Such attacks are a blatant violation of international laws,” the UN said.
On Sunday, at least 45 people were killed and dozens wounded in a double suicide bombing near a Shiite shrine south of Damascus, state media reported. ISIS-affiliated social media accounts circulated a statement from the group taking responsibility, the Guardian reports.
At least 400 civilians have been kidnapped from the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor by Islamic State militants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. According to Reuters, the monitoring group reported that the families of pro-government fighters were among those taken.
An unidentified man riding a bicycle attacked a group of Syrian refugee families gathered at the Muslim Association of Canada Center in Vancouver on Friday night.
Two refugee boats attempting to navigate the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece capsized early Tuesday morning, killing at least 34 men, women and children, whose bodies washed onto beaches in the coastal towns of Ayvalık and Dikili, a local news agency there reported.
