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United Press International
| 11 months ago
At least 20 civilians and anti-government protesters were killed Sunday by the Syrian military, opposition activists said. The Local Coordination Committees of Syria told CNN among those who died of injuries was a doctor tending to people wounded by...
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Edgewater View
| 11 months ago
Syria's main opposition group said nearly 800 people have been killed in violence across the country in the past week which saw some of the bloodiest violence in the 16-month uprising against President Bashar Assad. Opposition activists groups say...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
Bashar Assad because it will be people that are agreed to by mutual consent. (Reuters)
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
The Syrian opposition spokesperson on Sunday welcomed "a few positive elements" in a transition deal hammered out by world powers aimed at resolving the bloody conflict, but said the plan was too vague. The final declaration of the meeting on Syria "...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
The deaths were reported by human rights organizations in touch with rebel forces inside Syria. Earlier Saturday, a plan was approved by major powers regarding a change of government in Syria. Under the plan, first proposed by UN Secretary General...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
Tariq Alhomayed Saturday 30 June 2012 What was said in Geneva by the majority of international forces that have taken a decisive position toward the crimes being committed by Bashar Assad was beautiful, and this includes what was said Kofi Annan...
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War In Context
| 11 months ago
The parties altered a draft agreement proposed by Kofi Annan, the envoy for the United Nations and Arab League, after Russia objected to language that would prohibit Assad and members of his inner circle from being part of a transitional government.
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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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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that the Syria plan agreed to by major powers "paves the way for a post-Assad" government.
She said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad "will still have to go, he will never pass the...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
Breaking News Syrian forces push into Douma after weeks of shellling Syrian government forces pushed their way into Douma on Saturday after weeks of siege and shelling and fleeing residents spoke of corpses in the streets of the town near Damascus. ...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
A Syrian activist group says a 10-day government assault on a suburb of the capital Damascus has left dozens dead, hundreds more wounded, and caused a major new humanitarian crisis.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Assad rejects external solution for crisis in Syria 29 June 2012 Last updated at 17:52 ET Syria's president has said he will not accept any solution to his country's crisis imposed from outside, as major powers prepare to meet in Geneva. Bashar al-...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Last year's intervention in Libya shouldn't be viewed as the model to settle the crisis in Syria, the Syrian president told Iranian media...Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians from attacks from forces loyal to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Regime forces pounded the Damascus suburb of Douma and the central city of Homs on Friday, after one of the bloodiest days of the Syrian uprising in which more than 180 people were killed, a monitor said. Seven people were killed in clashes and...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
According to Reuters , "activists said more than 50 of those killed on Thursday died in Douma, about 9 miles outside the capital Damascus." The Associated Press adds that "a local activist who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons said...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Syrians in the besieged city of Douma wrapped mangled and bloodied corpses in white burial shrouds early on Friday, according to video posted online, after 190 people were killed in one of the deadliest days of Syria's 16-month-old uprising.
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Activists say dozens of people have been killed in relentless shelling of rebellious suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus over the past two days...The Local Coordination Committees and Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and other...
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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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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
An even further sign is the increase in the number of land mines being dug up by Syrian civilians near the border and thrown into Israel. Since the beginning of the year, six mines have been thrown into the country, compared to two in 2011 and zero...
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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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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Syria's UN envoy said on Thursday that "terrorists" in his country were using foreign communications technology, a clear swipe at US support for opposition groups fighting for the past 16-months to oust President Bashar al-Assad. "Terrorists have...
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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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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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Fox
| 11 months ago
Syria A strong explosion rocked the Syrian capital Thursday, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. The state TV said the explosion was in the parking lot of the Palace of Justice, a compound that houses several courts...Syria has been hit by...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Kofi Annan summoned world powers last night (Wednesday) to an emergency meeting on the Syrian crisis after rebels launched a highly symbolic strike on a pro-government television station in Damascus. With the country's increasingly violent civil war...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
An explosion tore through the car park outside Syria's highest court in central Damascus on Thursday, torching at least 20 cars, a Reuters witness said, but it was not immediately known if there were any casualties. The building appeared intact as...
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Al Jazeera
| 11 months ago
05 Syrian state TV said the explosion was in the parking lot of the Palace of Justice, a compound that houses several courts Two bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in central Damascus, state television reported, without giving any immediate...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Syria A strong explosion rocked the Syrian capital Thursday, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. The state TV said the explosion was in the parking lot of the Palace of Justice, a compound that houses several courts...Syria has been hit by...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
In the fiercest attack so far on any authoritarian organization, gunmen stormed the offices of Al-Ikhbariya al-Suriya (The Syrian News Channel) situated south of Damascus. They ransacked the office buildings, demolishing newsrooms and studios,...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 27, 2012 The United States has condemned a deadly attack by gunmen on a Syrian pro-government television station and said it hopes an upcoming meeting of world powers in Geneva will be a turning point in resolving Syria's 15-month...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
The Information Ministry says terrorist groups attacked pro-regime Al-Ikhbariya TV station. An attack on a pro-government television station near Damascus killed seven staff Wednesday, as peace envoy Kofi Annan confirmed a meeting on Syria would be...
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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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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
Earlier today President Bashar al-Assad abandoned his claims that the regime was merely fighting terrorists sent by foreign powers to destabilize Syria and said the country is in a " real state of war. " Today some of the war's heaviest fighting near...
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Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
June 27, 2012 A Syrian pro-government television station was blown up by suspected armed terrorist groups on Tuesday, according to state-television, in a sign that the crisis that grips the country has worsened. The Al-Ikhbariya television channel is...
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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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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
At least 36 people were killed in Syria on Wednesday, seven of which died in an attack on a pro-government television near Damascus according to state media, while 29 people died in other violence on the heels of the "bloodiest week" of the 15-month...
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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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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Syrian gunmen attacked the headquarters of Al Ikhbariya, pro-regime TV channel, in Damascus on Wednesday, killing seven employees including three journalists who were reportedly executed. The attackers also ransacked the building and stole equipment...
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AKI
| 11 months ago
At least four journalists were killed early Wednesday when pro-government television station was stormed by armed gunmen who blew up the newsroom south of Syrian capital Damascus. Hours before the dawn attack Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said his...
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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...
