With global attention focused on the fight against jihadists, Syria’s regime has in recent weeks stepped up its use of deadly barrel bomb strikes, killing civilians and wreaking devastation. In less ...

At least 37 people were killed in government barrel bomb attacks in northern Syria, a monitoring group said, while in the northeast Islamic State jihadists neared the gates of provincial capital ...

(AP) In desperate efforts to gain ground on battlefields, frustrated governments in the Mideast and Africa are using barrel bombs against their enemies launching the cheap, quickly manufactured ...

BEIRUT, April 11 (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian government warplanes dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held areas of Hama province on Tuesday, a day after the United ...

Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, the infamous Syrian cleric known as the ‘barrel bomb mufti’, who justified atrocities committed under former ruler Bashar al-Assad, was on Monday (Aug 24) sentenced to life ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Governments in the Mideast and Africa, in desperate efforts to gain battlefield ground, are using barrel bombs against their enemies, launching the cheap, quickly manufactured ...

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