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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 30, 2012 World leaders have reached an agreement for the transition of power in Syria aimed at ending the bloody conflict between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces trying to oust him. At a meeting in Geneva Saturday, the...
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Weekly Arham
| 11 months ago
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Al-Assad, both having come to power at the turn of the century, not only enjoyed close political relations, but they were also family friends. As the two men discussed state business, their wives would...
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Mail and Guardian
| 11 months ago
Helicopter gunships bombarded a strategic town in northern Syria overnight and tanks moved close to the commercial hub of Aleppo, rebels said, but kept well clear of new Turkish air defences installed to curb Syrian action near its frontiers. Turkish...
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Mail Online UK
| 11 months ago
Mr al Assad also attacked those from outside the country who he maintained were attempting to undermine U.N. attempts to resolve the situation. The Alawite leader said his government would not accept a solution from outside, and vowed to deal with '...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has sent a clear message to UN peace envoy Kofi Annan by saying he is not interested in a foreign solution to end the Syrian conflict. The president, who is facing fown a 16-month uprising against his rule in Syria,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Bashar al-Assad was left facing the biggest test of the 15-month uprising against his rule last night (Thursday) as the Turkish army began gathering on the Syrian border and rebels struck again at the heart of Damascus. In a major escalation of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
General in the Free Syria Army says 170 tanks arrive north of Aleppo; move follows Turkish air defense deployment along border. A general in the rebel Free Syria Army said on Friday that Syrian government forces had amassed around 170 tanks north of...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Syria's is obliged to "annihilate terrorists," President Bashar Assad said as U.S. and Russian officials were to meet on the crisis and Turkey armed its border. "The responsibility of the Syrian government is to protect all our residents.
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
Syria's Assad Zeenews Bureau Damascus: In a rare interview, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hailed Iran as one of the wise governments wanting to guard stability in Syria in the wake of the 16-month-old uprising against him. Assad, who hardly gives...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
Speaking during an interview on Iranian state television, Assad said, A proposal which is not Syrian will not be accepted because apart from us, no one knows to solve the problem. Addressing the escalating crisis in the relations with Turkey, Assad...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
Breaking News A general in the rebel Free Syria Army said on Friday that Syrian government forces had amassed around 170 tanks north of the city Aleppo, near the Turkish border, but there was no independent confirmation of the report. General...
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Courier & Press
| 11 months ago
Syria's president, Bashar Assad, has likely made a fatal mistake for the future of his regime by alienating Turkey. Early on in the 16-month uprising, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Assad to cease shelling crowded neighborhoods in...
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Sky News
| 11 months ago
Syria's president has said in a rare TV interview that his government had a duty to "eliminate terrorists" to protect its people. Bashar al Assad also ruled out any solution to the crisis imposed from outside the country. The interview coincides with...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Turkish troops and antiaircraft batteries were headed toward the tense Turkish-Syrian border region Thursday amid reports that U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan was calling for a transitional "national unity" government as a potential solution to the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
Turkey has deployed extra troops, tanks and missile batteries to bolster its defences in the wake of Syria shooting down a Turkish warplane last Friday. The government in Ankara has given orders for troops to treat any Syrian threat at the border as...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Michael Lipin , Mark Snowiss June 28, 2012 The United States says escalating violence in and around Damascus is a result of President Bashar al-Assad assaulting the Syrian people and a sign that he is losing control of the capital. A bomb exploded...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
Syrian opposition sources reported that the number of killed in clashes between security forces and demonstrators, most of them in the Damascus area. They said Syrian helicopters were attacking rebel positions in the capital.
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News 24
| 11 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Iranian state television on Thursday that a solution imposed on Syria from outside was unacceptable because only Syrians could resolve the country's crisis. "No non-Syrian model is acceptable because no one but...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
FoxNews.com Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that his regime had a responsibility to "eliminate terrorists" to save lives in Syria, Reuters reports. In a rare interview with Iranian state television, Assad spoke out on the...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
With the attack on the Palace of Justice on Thursday, a pro-regime television station on Tuesday and the raid on a Republican Guard barracks in Damascus last week, it appears as if the Syrian rebels are getting closer and closer to President Bashar...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
Syrian president tells Iranian state TV that he will not accept any solution to Syria's problems imposed from the outside. Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Thursday that his government had a duty to "eliminate terrorists" to protect its people.
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview on Iranian state television on Thursday that he believed Western and some regional countries were playing a role in supporting the uprising against his regime. He acknowledged that "material proof...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Turkey said Thursday it is stationing anti-aircraft batteries on its border with Syria following the downing of one of its warplanes. The military movements follow Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's announcement Tuesday that the rules of...
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Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
June 28, 2012 Turkish army personnel patrol near the border with Syria in Kilis, on April 11, 2012. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) Turkey has deployed anti-aircraft missiles along its border with Syria days after one of its warplanes was shot down...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Explosions have rocked the main court complex in the Syrian capital Damascus, injuring at least three people. State TV blamed rebel fighters for the attack, which correspondents say was a symbolic strike at the heart of the authority of President...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
Twin bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in Damascus on Thursday as deadly violence raged across the country and Turkey deployed missile batteries along its border with Syria. With fighting in the 16-month-old revolt increasingly focusing on...
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Daily Nation
| 11 months ago
Rating Turkey has sent missile batteries, tanks and troops to the border with Syria as a "security corridor", almost a week after the Syrian downing of a Turkish military jet, media reports said Thursday. There was no official confirmation of the...
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Sky News
| 11 months ago
The build-up of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the Kurdish mountains that run south from Turkey is astonishing. In the year I have reported on this conflict, I have seen this rag-tag grouping of defected soldiers and willing civilians grow and improve.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud...
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Daily Mail & Guardian
| 11 months ago
There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a "terrorist explosion" in the court car park.
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Turkey said Thursday it was positioning anti-aircraft batteries along its border with Syria following the downing of one of Turkey's warplanes by Syrian forces. Turkey's state broadcaster, TRT, ran video of military trucks carrying anti-aircraft guns,...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Two bombs exploded Thursday in the parking lot of Syria's Palace of Justice, according to the country's state television, which reported plumes of smoke billowing up from downtown Damascus. The official media organ blamed the attack on "terrorists." ...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
As diplomats prepared for a weekend effort to revive stalled Syria peace plans, regional tensions swirling around the 16-month-old crisis ticked higher on Thursday as Turkey said it was stationing antiaircraft batteries on their common border...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
Convoy of about 30 military vehicles, trucks missile batteries arrive in Turkish coastal town, according to Turkish media. A convoy of about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with missile batteries, arrived in Turkey's coastal town of...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
The White House said Wednesday Syrian President Bashar Assad is brutalizing his own people and must step down from power. Responding to Assad's remark that Syria is in a state of war, White House press secretary Jay Carney said: "In terms of Assad's...
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Kuwait Times
| 11 months ago
A general view shows damage at the site of an attack on the pro-government Al-Ikhbariya satellite television channel's offices yesterday. Gunmen stormed a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters yesterday, bombing buildings and shooting dead...
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Telegraph India
| 11 months ago
A day after President Bashar al-Assad said Syria was living in a state of war, rebels operating with increasing audacity around the capital were reported by the country's official media today to have stormed into a pro-government television station,...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Turkey's prime minister announced toughened steps against Syria Tuesday in response to the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syrian forces last Friday. Reacting to the shoot-down, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced any Syrian...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
The United States said Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's admission that his country was in a "state of war" was all the more profound because he caused it. Assad ordered his cabinet to crush the 16-month-old revolt against his rule,...
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War In Context
| 11 months ago
But the rebels denied carrying out the attack, saying a unit of the elite Syrian Republican Guard assigned to guard the station defected and attacked other government soldiers who had remained loyal. The conflicting versions offered graphic testimony...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
June 28, 2012 Read later "We live in a state of real war, and when we live in a state of war, all our policies, directives and all sectors will be directed in order to gain victory in this war" .....Gunmen attacked Syria's state-run Ikhbariya...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Seven people have died after gunmen raided the headquarters of a pro-government Syrian TV channel in Damascus, just a few miles from the presidential palace, and set off explosives inside. Share This Story State-run Sana news agency reported that an "...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Syrian rebels on Wednesday attacked a TV station near the capital, killing three people. Photograph: Reuters Gunmen have raided the headquarters of a pro-government Syrian TV station, demolishing the building and killing three employees, the state...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Syria in a state of war, says Assad, as TV station is attacked video The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, tells his cabinet that the country is in a real state of war, and orders his newly-appointed government to direct all polices towards cracking...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 27, 2012 Syria's state-run news agency says an "armed terrorist group" killed three people during an attack on a pro-government television station. Wednesday at the headquarters of the al-Ikhbaria satellite channel, but did not say how...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Syria is in a "state of war," President Bashar Assad said, as 116 people were killed and Turkey warned it would attack any Syrian force that nears its border. "We live in a real state of war from all angles," Assad said in a speech to his new Cabinet...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
The latest attack came within hours of a surprise assault by Syrian insurgents on a Republican Guard base in Damascus, just a few miles from the presidential palace, on Tuesday, eliciting a furious military response, with government forces shelling...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C) addressing the Syrian parliament in Damascus, Syria 03 June 2012. Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told his new Cabinet that Syria is literally in war , calling unity to make the country strong. "We...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Tuesday that Syria is officially at war from all angles. Assad also insisted to his newly sworn-in cabinet that all efforts should be channelised towards winning the war. Share This Story For a long time,...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 11 months ago
In the case of its downed fighter jet, Turkey's bark has proved mightier than its bite. For days, Turkey has been warning neighboring Syria about the possible consequences of the shooting down of a Turkish fighter plane in what Ankara says was...
