Blast hits Syrian port city of Latakia
Posted by: saleh1966
Latakia :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 19:03:49 -0700 | disasters-news
A loud explosion was heard inside the military zone for Syrian Army on the southern outskirts of Syria's main port city of Latakia. A military spokesman said, "On Wednesday that six soldiers, including three officers, were injured by a blast...
Islamists and extremists are taking control in Syria
Posted by: StephenManual
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 19:45:50 -0700 | disasters-news
Syria's civil war is getting more ugly with each passing day as there appears to be no end to it in sight. The international community has been struggling to rein in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but so far little is...
A Syrian Man's Chilling Account Of Being Held In A State Prison
Source: BusinessInsider
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 17:13:43 -0700 | business-news
Prison is for real men is an old saying we have in Syria, and one that I kept repeating to myself as I paced anxiously back and forth across my small, dingy cell in an almost hypnotic trance of meditation....
Is Obama Administration Playing Both Sides in Arms Deals?
Source: Fox
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 14:19:29 -0700 | political-news
A Republican senator blasted the Pentagon after it entered into a new helicopter contract with a Russian company which is supplying the Syrian regime -- even as the U.S. moves to arm the Syrian opposition. The contract was announced Monday...
Syrian exiles get taste of home: Beloved ice cream
Source: Associated Press
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 13:43:54 -0700 | political-news
For Syrians, no visit to Damascus' Old City is complete without a stop at a more than century-old ice cream parlor in its main souq where you can watch them make their distinctive desert by pounding it into shape with...
Forget 'Red Lines,' The US Shouldn't Start Wars To Preserve Global Street-Cred
Source: BusinessInsider
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 12:58:05 -0700 | business-news
Jeffrey Goldberg makes a questionable assertion on Iran and Syria: Whether we like it or not, we are in a conflict with Iran, and our credibility is on the line. It's true that many American politicians and pundits assume that...
Russia warns conflict in Syria could spread to neighboring countries.
Posted by: KhanhElegant
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 10:15:27 -0700 | political-news
Russian president told Western countries that the transfer of weapons to the Syrian rebels would be counter-productive day. According to him, the weapons were moved to Syria insurgents could someday be used in Europe. The same day in Moscow, Russian...
US Secretary of State John Kerry 'argued for air strikes on Syria chemical weapons'
Source: The independent
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 09:39:36 -0700 | travel-news
John Kerry has argued for air strikes against Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles it has emerged, but faces stiff opposition among America's leading military commanders. The new Secretary of State, who has immersed himself deeply in Middle Eastern matters since coming...
Beirut Port thriving on Syrian demand
Source: The Daily Star
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 16:11:30 -0700 | travel-news
Jihadist rebels kill 14 Syrian intelligence officers in twin suicide attacks against their offices in the northeast province of Hasakeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says. The conflict in Syria has driven up goods handled by the Beirut Port...
‘Double refugees' strain UNRWA resources as numbers surge
Source: The Daily Star
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 15:55:56 -0700 | political-news
The courtyard of the U.N.-run Yarmouk primary school in Burj al-Barajneh was packed, not with students blithely running in between classes, but with newly arrived Palestinian refugees from Syria coming to claim cash distributions doled out by the U.N.
Syrian rebels losing faith in the West
Source: The Globe & Mail
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 20:50:01 -0700 | travel-news
As President Bashar al-Assad's forces make serious advances on rebel-held areas around the Syrian capital, Damascus, and its largest city of Aleppo, Syrian opposition groups say they have lost faith in the West, despite the Obama administration's decision last week...
Nation Currently More Sympathetic To Demise Of Planet Krypton Than Plight Of Syria
Source: The Onion
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 14:29:53 -0700 | entertainment-news
Pew Research Center Monday, the vast majority of Americans are currently more concerned about the demise of Planet Krypton, the native world of the comic book character Superman recently depicted in the film Man Of Steel , than the devastation...
The adventures of a Libyan weapons dealer in Syria
Source: War In Context
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 11:16:33 -0700 | disasters-news
After fleeing Libya in his 20s, Haroun established himself as a property developer in Manchester. After about two decades in the British city, he returned to Libya in 2011 to fight in the revolution, where he became a prominent rebel...
Iran says appeals for 'jihad' in Syria fuel radicalism
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 17:19:21 -0700 | political-news
Breaking News Calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the Syrian government and its Shiite allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, prominent cleric Sheikh Youssef...
Syria's internally displaced – ‘The world has forgotten us'
Posted by: chnarendra
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-06-19 19:59:45 -0700 | disasters-news
On a recent visit to a camp near Atmeh, just inside Syria near the Turkish border, some 21,000 people were sheltering amid hellish conditions. Heavy rain leaked into the tents and had turned the clay soil into thick slippery mud,...
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