Deir Ezzor

Israeli ground forces advanced beyond the demilitarized zone on the Israel-Syria border over the weekend, marking their first open entry into Syrian territory since the October 1973 war, according to two Israeli officials who spoke anonymously to The New York Times.

The jihadists are now just 20 kilometers from the capital Damascus after taking control of Dderaa province in southern Syria, a commander and the non-governmental organization Syrian Observatory for Human Righ

A US-backed rebel alliance led by Syrian Kurds has seized the largest city in the east of the country, the main border crossing with Iraq, putting it in de facto control of the eastern Syrian desert in two surprise moves.

U.S. military airstrikes in eastern Syria were a message to Iran and Tehran-backed militias that targeted American troops this month and several other times over the past year, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered air strikes in eastern Syria targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias, a US military spokesman said.

The strikes in oil-rich Deir Ezzor province "targeted infrastructure facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," Central Command (Centcom) spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino said in a statement.

Turkish police have detained a suspected former executioner for the ISIL in Syria, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Feb. 17.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A car bombing in eastern Syria on Friday killed at least 18 people including 11 members of a US-backed force that has fought the Islamic State group, a war monitor said.

Israel's military admitted for the first time Wednesday it was responsible for a 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor, a strike it was long believed to have carried out, reported AFP.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Dec. 4 that a meeting held a day earlier by a Russian military delegation and officials of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province had “evaluated the steps to be taken” after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is ousted from the region. 

A Russian general was killed while battling Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants near the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, Moscow's defense ministry has said.