US-backed Syrian forces warned Sunday they were struggling to cope with an outpouring of foreigners from the Islamic State group's imploding "caliphate", urging governments to take responsibility for their citizens.

Exodus from last Islamic State enclave overwhelms Syria force

"My son will grow up to become a jihadist," a woman cried proudly as she stepped off a bus ferrying people out of the Islamic State group's last sliver of territory in eastern Syria.

As 'caliphate' crumbles, Islamic State women remain defiant

US-backed Syrian forces tried Thursday to negotiate the release of civilians still trapped in the Islamic State group's last redoubt, as the international coalition warned the jihadists faced "inevitable defeat".

Syria forces try to free last civilians from Islamic State holdout

US President Donald Trump Sunday called on his European allies to take back alleged jihadists captured in Syria, as Islamic State group fighters defended the last scrap of their "caliphate".

Donald Trump asks Europe take back jihadists, as IS in last stand in Syria

The week that was, in pictures

A runaway teenager who has divided British opinion after joining the Islamic State group in Syria but now wants to return home has given birth, her family said on Sunday.

UK teen who joined IS has given birth in Syria: Family

A British teenager who fled to join the Islamic State group in Syria is living in a refugee camp and wants to return home, The Times reported on Thursday. Shamima Begum, now 19, expressed no regrets about fleeing her London life four years ago but said that two of her children had died and, pregnant with her third, she wanted to return.

UK teen ran away to join Islamic State in Syria; she now 'wants to come home'

Police have arrested two Syrian citizens in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity, including torturing prisoners, during their work for the intelligence service in Syria, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Two Syrians arrested in Germany for suspected crimes against humanity

Britain is ready to do "all that is required" to neutralise the threat from the Islamic State group, defence minister Gavin Williamson said Wednesday after the US suggested creating a new international mission in northeast Syria.

Britain will 'do what it takes' to beat IS: Defence minister Gavin Williamson

In pics: Syrian children in focus at Sarajevo museum on war and childhood

A bomb blast hit the capital of war-torn Syria on Sunday and a "terrorist" was arrested, state media said, in a rare attack in the city that has been largely insulated from violence.

'Bomb blast' hits Syrian capital Damascus

An estimated 25,000 people have fled escalating violence over the last six months in eastern Syria, where die-hard jihadists are defending their last bastions, the UN said Friday.

25,000 flee violence in eastern Syria: United Nations

Syria's nearly eight-year-old conflict saw its lowest annual death toll in 2018 as the regime reasserted its authority over swathes of territory, a war monitor said on Monday.

In 8 years of war, Syria records lowest death toll with over 19,000 killed in 2018

President Donald Trump last week unexpectedly said he was pulling all 2,000 troops from Syria, declaring that the United States had achieved its objective as the Islamic State group had been 'knocked' out.

Russia, Turkey agree to coordinate on Syria after US pullout

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned on Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump stunned the US establishment by ordering a troop withdrawal from Syria. In a letter to Trump, the 68-year-old Pentagon chief said his political outlook, which cherishes traditional alliances, could no longer be reconciled with that of the president, who has poured scorn on longstanding partnerships and repeatedly sought closer ties with Russia.

US defense secretary Jim Mattis quits; cites differences with Trump

Pope Francis lit a candle at the Vatican on Sunday for victims of conflicts around the world and in particular the children of war-torn Syria. "Advent is a time of hope.

Pope lights candle for children of Syria

Syrian regime shelling killed nine civilians including seven children on Saturday in a planned buffer zone around the country's last major rebel bastion, the Observatory said.

9 civillians killed in shelling exchange in Syria's Aleppo city; official media allege 'toxic gas' attack

Counter-attacks by the Islamic State group have killed at least 47 US-backed fighters over two days as the jihadists struck from their embattled holdout in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday.

IS counter-attacks kill 47 US-backed fighters in east Syria: Monitor

A total of 260,000 Syrian nationals have returned to a swathe of land in northern Syria where Turkey carried out a cross-border operation dubbed "Euphrates Shield", Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday.

Turkey says 260,000 Syrians have returned to 'Euphrates Shield' operation area

The leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Turkey stressed the importance on Saturday of a lasting ceasefire in Syria, and said a committee to create a new constitution should meet by the end of the year.

Russia, Germany, France and Turkey call for lasting ceasefire, constitutional meeting for Syria

Syria reopened a wing of the capital's famed antiquities museum on Sunday after six years of closure to protect its exhibits and visitors from rebel rocket fire in the civil war.

Syria reopens Damascus antiquities museum

An offensive by US-backed forces against the Islamic State group's last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 jihadists on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said.

US-backed Syria offensive kills 35 Islamic State fighters

Russia's defence minister said Saturday that almost 88,000 rebels had been killed in Syria in the three years since Moscow's intervention to back government forces.

Moscow's intervention has killed around 88,000 rebels in Syria: Russian defence ministry

The United States will refuse any additional reconstruction assistance to war-torn Syria so long as Iranian troops are present in the country, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.

Pompeo says no more US reconstruction aid to Syria if Iranian troops stay

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