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Zaman.com
| 11 months ago
Coming on the heels of an agreement by the world powers to establish a transitional national unity government to end the now 16-month-old Syrian crisis, leaving the door open for Syria's president to be part of the new government, the Syrian...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Syria's conflict spilled further into Lebanon on Saturday when mortar fire from President Bashar al-Assad's forces hit villages in the north, killing five people after rebels crossed the border to seek refuge, residents said. Rebels fighting to...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Syrian forces bombarded a string of towns in Aleppo province on Saturday, a day after global powers gathered in yet another effort to chart a political end to the revolt against President Bashar Assad. "Regime forces are attempting to regain control...
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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
They were close friends and shared a singular lineage: Both were blood royalty of the Syrian leadership caste, birthright beneficiaries of their fathers' stranglehold on the nation. But the conflict tearing Syrian apart also opened a rift between...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Ba'ath takeover 1961-63 Following another military coup led by Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi September 28, 1961 Syria secedes, re-establishing itself as the Syrian Arab Republic Several other overthrows and end in a coup on March 8, 1963 engineered by the...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
West believe that Russia's support for Syria stems from Moscow's desire to profit from selling arms to Bashar al-Assad's government and maintain its naval facility at the Syrian port of Tartus...The real reason that Russia is resisting strong...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
Tariq Alhomayed Saturday 7 July 2012 I listened to important accounts being told by some Syrian officers who have defected from the regime of the tyrant of Damascus, Bashar Assad. Some of these accounts are capable of revealing why the pace of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
The 15-member council approved in April the deployment of up to 300 unarmed military observers to Syria to oversee a ceasefire that has failed to take hold. The mission is part of a six-point peace plan proposed by international envoy Kofi Annan...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Thursday came news that General Manaf Tlass, a senior commander of Syria's elite Republican Guard the troops most directly responsible for defending the embattled Bashar Assad regime had defected to Turkey. While the operational impact his departure...
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War In Context
| 11 months ago
That March evening, the deputy oil minister started a three-day covert journey to Turkey, hosted at safehouses across the country and guarded by fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. A year into the country's uprising, he became the highest-...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News July 06, 2012 The bodies of two Turkish airmen whose jet was shot down last month by Syria have been recovered and are being buried Friday at a military funeral. The bodies of the pilots were pulled Thursday from the seabed 14 kilometers off...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Turkish leaders observed a moment of silence Friday at the funeral of two pilots of a fighter jet shot down by Syria last month in an incident that has escalated tensions between the two former allies. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
It said the bodies had been flown to the eastern city of Malatya where the jet had taken off from on June 22. (Reuters)
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Boston.com
| 11 months ago
In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Monday, July 2, 2012, black smoke leaps the air from shelling near Ali bin Abi Taleb mosque in Talbiseh, the central province of Homs, Syria. The head of the Arab League...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Iran and Syria have resumed working together to fight Western sanctions on their oil as shipping records showed two Iranian vessels have delivered diesel to Syrian ports over the past week, the first fuel shipments from Iran in about three months.
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The Mercury News
| 11 months ago
The bodies of two Turkish pilots were recovered from the seabed on Thursday after U.S. ocean explorer Robert Ballard, best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic, helped locate them nearly two weeks after their jet was shot down by Syria.
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
A member of the Free Syrian Army (The Brigade of the Revolution's Shield) attends a daily training in Sarmada, north of Idlib province, July 4, 2012. Syrian troops pushed into the rebel-held northern town of Khan Sheikhoun on Thursday, activists said,...
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Canadian Free Press
| 11 months ago
In the past weeks, the Syrian crisis has become more intense, violent, and regionalized, in turn raising the level of international interest in finding a way to stop the bloodshed and end the crisis. So far, however, the international community's...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
The head of U.N. monitors in Syria said on Thursday the mission must stay, despite the fact that the ceasefire they were sent to police is non-existent and violence is reaching an "unprecedented level". General Robert Mood said the 300-strong mission...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News July 05, 2012 The head of the United Nations observer team in Syria says he will adjust the way the monitors work when their mission resumes, with a focus on staying in certain areas for longer periods of time. Major General Robert Mood told...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Turkish firefighters battled wildfires along the border with Syria Thursday, that Turkish television alleged Syria started to deny refuge to rebel fighters. The four windswept fires, which started near the Armenian-populated Syrian border town of...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
President Bashar al-Assad warned Turkey's prime minister to stop "interfering" in Syria on Wednesday, marking a new low in relations between the former allies. Assad accused Recep Tayyip Erdogan of trying to provoke a sectarian war in Syria by arming...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Tension between Syria and Turkey is once again rising as Turkey announced that its army has found the bodies of the two missing pilots at the bottom of the Mediterranean with the help of an American undersea explorer. Share This Story The bodies of...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
Tariq Alhomayed Thursday 5 July 2012 The Turkish Cumhuriyet newspaper has been publishing an interview in three parts with the tyrant of Damascus, Bashar Assad. This is the second interview that Assad has given over the past week. The first interview...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
They say that society disables people and this is true but what is equally true is the disabling nat... The Spanish city of Valencia sits under a blanket of ash, as two converging fires continue to devour... There's a saying that there are two kinds...
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Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
July 4, 2012 Syrian President Bashar Al Assad sits at a desk at the Arab Summit March 27, 2002 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Courtney Kealy/Getty Images) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused Turkey of interfering in the 16-month-long conflict, providing...
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War In Context
| 11 months ago
The military General Staff in Ankara said on Wednesday that it was working to remove the bodies of Captain Gokhan Ertan and Lieutenant Hasan Huseyin Aksoy from the Mediterranean. Turkey didn't identify the location of the dead pilots or provide any...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
The bodies of two pilots from the Turkish fighter plane shot down by Syrian forces were found in the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday, officials said. Turkish military leaders said in a statement efforts had begun to remove the bodies of Capt.
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
Story continues below Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he had wished his forces had not shot down the plane, in reference to an incident that has fuelled tensions between the two neighbours. However, al-Assad, who is facing a 16-month uprising,...
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Open Democracy
| 11 months ago
The incident of the downing of the Turkish fighter jet has demonstrated once again the unity of the Syrian people against whatever may threaten the country's security and sovereignty. In September 2007, several Israeli fighter jets penetrated Syrian...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
An al-Qaida -inspired group claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks across Syria, the latest evidence that extremists are exploiting the chaos to make inroads in another Middle Eastern country. The Syrian regime has long blamed terrorists for...
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CNN Blog
| 11 months ago
Syria and Turkey leveled sharp criticism at one another Wednesday, a spurt of angry rhetoric in the aftermath of Syria's shootdown of a Turkish jet last month. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in an interview published in the Turkish...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Ankara and Damascus deteriorated after Syria shot down the Turkish reconnaissance plane on June 22, with Turkey warning it would respond "decisively." However, both capitals have said they do not want the incident to lead to armed conflict. Also...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Turkish authorities have located the bodies of the two Turkish pilots whose jet was shot down by Syria on June 22. The bodies were found by a U.S. underwater vessel on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press...Hasan Huseyin Aksoy are being...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
The bodies of Captain Gokhan Ertan and Lieutenant Hasan Huseyin Aksoy were finally traced. Though the exact location where they were found, has not been mentioned, the military General Staff said that they were working to remove the bodies from the...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Turkey Aided by the American explorer who found the wreck of the Titanic, rescue teams from Turkey on Wednesday located the bodies of two Turkish pilots whose unarmed jet was downed in the Mediterranean by Syrian gunners nearly two weeks ago. Turkish...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
The bodies of the two pilots of a Turkish jet that was downed by Syria on June 22 have been recovered at the bottom of the eastern Mediterranean sea, the Turkish army said Wednesday. "The bodies (of the two pilots) have been recovered in seabed and...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
Ankara and Damascus hit a new low after Syria shot down the Turkish reconnaissance plane over the Mediterranean on June 22, prompting a sharp rebuke from Turkey, which said it would respond decisively. More Related to this Story Syria says it downed...
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Al Jazeera English
| 11 months ago
43 The military has been conducting a search operation since the jet was downed on June 22 [EPA] Turkey's armed forces command has said it had found the bodies of both pilots of an F-4 jet shot down by Syria on the seabed and was working on...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Syria's fractured opposition groups on Wednesday wound up talks in the Egyptian capital that descended into chaos and even fist fights as they tried to forge a common vision for a transition in their country. More than 200 participants from 30...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has made Turkey a party to Syria's bloodshed by interfering in Damascus's internal affairs and by giving logistical support to the rebels, Syrian President Bashar Assad told a Turkish newspaper. Assad also...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad accused Turkey in an interview published Wednesday of giving logistical backing to Syrian "terrorists" and told Ankara to stop meddling in his country's affairs. "Turkey's desire to interfere in Syria's internal...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
A Turkish fighter jet shot down by Syria last month asked for trouble when it entered Syrian airspace, the Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed Russian source as saying on Tuesday. "The actions of the Turkish plane were no doubt a provocation.
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Amid escalating cross-border tensions, Syrian President Bashar Assad has told a Turkish newspaper that he regrets "100 percent" Syria's downing of a Turkish aircraft last month and said ground gunners assumed the jet was an Israeli warplane. "In the...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Syria maintains the plane was within its airspace when it was shot down June 22, but Turkey disputes that...If the plane was hit by antiaircraft gunfire, it was probably attacked within Syrian airspace, as such weapons have limited range, said a...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
Wednesday 4 July 2012 The Syrian regime continued its offensive against the opposition, bombarding the city of Douma near Damascus, and Turkey said it had scrambled warplanes after Syrian helicopters flew near its border. Syrian troops pounded...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
The Syrian army pressed its offensive against rebels, bombarding the city of Douma near Damascus, and Turkey said it had scrambled warplanes again after Syrian helicopters flew near its border. Turkey's armed forces command said the fighters had...
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Kuwait Times
| 11 months ago
A Syrian man burns the remains of his damaged belongings in the town of Atareb in northern Aleppo province. There are few signs diplomacy can stem Syria's worsening conflict, leaving Western leaders and even more so their Arab and Turkish allies...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 11 months ago
Cumhuriyet last night published first remarks from an interview with Assad in Damascus. The paper quoted Assad as saying: "I say 100 per cent, I wish we did not shoot it down." Turkey says Syrian forces downed its jet in international airspace after...
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Fox
| 11 months ago
FoxNews.com In an effort to suppress opposition against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syria has been running a network of 27 torture centers, the international Human Rights Watch announced Tuesday in a report. The report, titled Torture...
