It was the seventh car bombing in Manbij in over a month, officials said. The French and German foreign ministers are the most senior Western officials to visit Syria since longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels. A journalists' association says two journalists working for Kurdish media outlets were killed in Syria while covering fighting between Turkish-backed fighters and Syrian Kurdish militia.
Weapons of war accumulated by the toppled Assad regime over half of a century are being systemically obliterated by massive Israeli airstrikes. The Syrian government has been under strict sanctions by the United States, the European Union and others for years.
The U. Syria's brutal civil war rekindled suddenly after 13 years, with rebels staging a shock offensive that forced long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad to flee to Russia. The Pentagon said several U. Syria's Bashar Assad was just welcomed back by the Arab League, but protests echoing the uprising that led to the country's brutal civil war are gaining steam. After the U.
One harrowing video shows a dust-covered man being pulled from debris in Turkey asking to borrow a phone to check on his family. Iran has also stepped-up attacks on Kurdish groups in the region, drawing a warning from the U.
The head of Syria's antiquities ministry says the stunning mosaic includes scenes from the Trojan War and the mythical battle with the Amazons. A monitoring group says it was the first American raid in Syrian government-held territory, and a U. The strikes in an oil-rich province came days after Iran-backed groups used drones to aim at U. No casualties were suffered in that attack.
