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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 1, 2018
BEIRUT — The Syrian government's battle to recapture the rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus is likely to be a long and bloody fight because of the presence of thousands of battle-hardened fighters who have had years to prepare. Many of the fighters entrenched in eastern Ghouta are originally fromÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
February 28, 2018
BEIRUT — The Syrian government's battle to recapture the rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus is likely to be a long and bloody fight because of the presence of thousands of battle-hardened fighters who have had years to prepare. Many of the fighters entrenched in eastern Ghouta are originally fromÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 22, 2018
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad wants to take back eastern Ghouta, an area of farmland and towns just outside Damascus that represents the opposition's biggest remaining ... Two years ago, the children's mother was killed in their home in Jobar, a district where eastern Ghouta meets Damascus.
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 20, 2018
Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army, backed by Turkish Air and Land Forces captured 14 localities from the Syrian Democratic Forces' YPG in Afrin region, ... Al-Marj area, Awtaya, Al-Nashabiyah, Beit Sawa, Mesraba, Zamalka, Kafr Batna, Al-Shifuniyah, Douma, Hammouriyah, Saqba, Hazeh, and Jobar in theÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 14, 2018
According to the Free Syrian Army's Jaysh al-Sharqiya, three YPG 's elements were killed and one captured in the failed infiltration attempt. ... Faylaq al-Rahman released a statement saying that its “engineering battalion” blew up a series of Syrian Arab Army's tunnels in the area between Jobar and AinÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 12, 2018
Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army, backed by Turkish Air and Land Forces captured two localities from the Syrian Democratic Forces' YPG in Afrin region, as a part of the operation 'Olive Branch' ... Islamic State's Amaq Agency reported that CJTF-OIR 's airstrikes over Al-Shaafa village killed nine civilians.
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 6, 2018
However, the aforementioned localities should be treated as disputed for now, as there is lack of evidence that suggests YPG 's control over the localities. ... Syrian Arab Army's artillery and Syrian Arab Air Force targeted Douma, Arbeen, Kafr Batna, Zamalka, Saqba, Mesraba, Hammouriyah, Jobar, andÃâà...
The Atlantic
November 9, 2017
Syrian schoolchildren run past heavily-damaged buildings in the rebel-held area of Jobar, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus, on April ... A wall marred by bullet holes in the school in Hazema, North Raqqa, Syria, photographed on August 21, 2017, shortly after the school re-opened.
Aljazeera.com
July 17, 2017
As the war in Syria enters its seventh year, the uprising that began in 2011 and the subsequent armed opposition that surfaced has slowly withered ... has remained under government control throughout the war, residents of the suburb of Jobar took up arms to fight Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
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