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Fighters loyal to Syria’s ousted leader Bashar al-Assad attacked government forces on Thursday, killing at least 13 in one of the deadliest clashes since Islamist-led rebels seized power.
A coordinated assault by pro-Assad militias targeted security patrols and checkpoints in Jableh and surrounding areas, Syrian officials said. Heavy gunfire was reported in multiple cities as violence spread across the coastal region.
The head of security in Latakia, Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kunaifati, described the attack as a well-planned operation by "remnants of the Assad militias." The Interior Ministry confirmed ongoing clashes inside Jableh and a rising death toll among security forces.
The region remains a security challenge for interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is working to consolidate control three months after Islamist-led insurgents toppled Assad. The government has faced unrest in multiple areas, including the Israeli frontier, rural Latakia, and Homs.
Authorities have imposed a curfew in Tartous after protests erupted. Security forces also detained Ibrahim Huwaija, a former intelligence official under Assad’s late father, Hafez.
Violence has also escalated in southwestern Syria, with clashes in al-Sanamayn leaving around a dozen people dead this week.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is targeting a $20 billion capital raise linked to Nvidia hardware, Bloomberg News has reported.
The newly elected mayor of Herdecke in northwestern Germany, Social Democrat Iris Stalzer, was seriously injured in a knife attack near her home by an unknown assailant or assailants.
Conor McGregor has been issued an 18-month suspension for breaching the UFC’s anti-doping regulations after missing three scheduled drug tests in 2024, according to a statement released by Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD) on Tuesday.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s vehicle was attacked on Tuesday as his convoy travelled through Cañar province, where protesters demonstrating against the government’s decision to lift fuel subsidies threw rocks and other objects at his car.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha met on Tuesday with a delegation from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, marking the first visit to Ukraine by the group’s president, Pere Joan Pons.
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