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Source: National Public Radio
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-13 12:26:19 -0700 | political-news
In our wired and rapidly shrinking world, there is no distant war, no isolated economic crisis and no social trend that observes national borders. When a building collapses in Bangladesh, photos of the dead and grieving appear instantly. When a...
Syrian humanitarian aid efforts get another $2M from Canada
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-23 23:47:41 -0700 | political-news
Canada is contributing $2 million to help Syrian refugees who are flooding into Jordan. The money is intended to help a number of non-governmental organizations provide humanitarian assistance for the refugees. Canada is providing 2,500 unregistered Syrian refugees and vulnerable...
Cameron set for Obama talks on Syria
Source: BBC
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-13 04:12:10 -0700 | political-news
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is in Washington for talks with US President Barack Obama. David Cameron is expected to push for a peace conference on Syria to be held by the end of the month. The prime minister believes...
Rebel commander censure Israel and Iran to backing Syrian regime.
Posted by: rooys
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-23 23:59:30 -0700 | political-news
Syrian rebel force commander has blamed Israel for working with Iran and Hezbollah to uphold Syrian President Bashar Assad in his two year endeavor to topple contradicting forces, Turkish news arrange covered Sunday. Abdulkader Saleh, a commander in the Al-Tawhid...
Syrian crisis now a global affair
Source: Open Democracy
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-12 11:17:30 -0700 | political-news
The outcome of the Syrian crisis, no matter what that might be, will delimit the new Middle East in a way that will affect the entire worldnot just Syria and the region Western leaders' conflicting statements underscore the unease about...
Steinitz defends Lapid's plans for budget cuts
Source: Jerusalem Post
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-12 10:24:31 -0700 | political-news
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz at the Jerusalem Post Conference, April 28, 2013. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post Former finance minister and current Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz spoke out in defense of under-fire Yair Lapid's budget plan and...
Obama and the Middle East Dilemma
Posted by: beyondthecusp
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-15 09:48:46 -0700 | political-news
While everyone stares at the ever shifting, ever blurring Syrian Chemical Weapons red line which is now befuddling the White House, the Syrian civil war continues to wind on and on eventually to determine who will prove supreme, bad or...
Fighting raged in Aleppo, Homs and Damascus Countryside
Posted by: Fury60
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-15 12:26:37 -0700 | political-news
Syrian opposition forces have escalated battles with armed irregular forces in the northern city of Aleppo, activists said on Saturday, the intensification of the fighting in the capital Damascus and its countryside In the short area in Homs province. Activists...
Israel and Russia to Discuss Arms Sale to Syria
Source: Newyork Times
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-11 15:45:55 -0700 | political-news
An Israeli official said that Mr. Netanyahu had spoken with Mr. Putin by telephone last week, while the Israeli prime minister was visiting China, and the two agreed to meet in Moscow. The discussions are expected to focus on Russia's...
Syria: UN assists thousands displaced in Baniyas area
Source: NewKerala
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-11 04:44:31 -0700 | political-news
The World Food Programme (WFP) is distributing ready-to-eat food rations and high-energy biscuits to families who were forced to flee Baniyas and surrounding villages on Syria's Mediterranean coast to Tartous city...Following the emergency ration, families will be given WFP's regular...
New rounds of road works on Dora bridge, Louaizeh
Source: The Daily Star
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-10 16:34:19 -0700 | political-news
New rounds of road works will begin on the Dora bridge outside Beirut and the international highway leading to Damascus. After a few weeks of nighttime road works on the eastern lanes of the Dora bridge in Burj Hammoud, a...
Masnaa border to see improvements
Source: The Daily Star
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 00:14:57 -0700 | political-news
The Daily Star Areas in red have seen the largest numbers of people fleeing to Lebanon. The crowded Masnaa border crossing with Syria will see improvements by next month, officials promised Friday, as the passage strains to cope with the...
Teenage Western recruits are joining Syria's jihadist movement
Source: Toronto Star
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-10 14:07:42 -0700 | political-news
The man is calling for recruits to join the Al Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda affiliate that makes up part of Syria's fragmented armed opposition fighting the government forces of Syria President Bashar Assad. As unappealing as that opportunity may...
Jumblatt: Syria crisis would drag on due to clash of US
Source: Turkish Press
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 00:19:23 -0700 | political-news
Walid Jumblatt, the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and the most prominent leader of Lebanon's Druze community, said, "the clash of US, looking out for the interests of none except for Russia, Iran and Israel, will lead...
Assad and Nasrallah threaten new front line in Golan
Source: Reuters
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-10 10:08:02 -0700 | political-news
Topics A United Nations observation tower overlooking Syria is seen near the Kuneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria, on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights May 8, 2013. Threats from Damascus and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to turn the Golan Heights...
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