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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Western states expressed alarm after Syria acknowledged for the first time that it has chemical and biological weapons and said it could use them if foreign countries intervene. A week of unprecedented fighting inside the capital Damascus, including...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Agencies An image grab taken from a YouTube video purports to show Syrian rebels battling government troops in Aleppo...President Barack Obama warned Syrian President Bashar Assad Monday not to make the tragic mistake of turning to his stockpile of...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Lebanon Syrian refugees in Lebanon's far northeast corner can hear the war raging across the border, where some of their family members are fighting, and dying, in the revolt against Bashar al-Assad. The men are clamoring for a signature on...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post AL-TAL, Syria In a valley tucked away behind the mountains just to the north of Damascus, Free Syrian Army rebels are gathering their strength and preparing for what they hope will be a final assault on the capital...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
US President Barack Obama has warned Syria's Bashar al-Assad not to make the "tragic mistake" of turning to his stockpile of chemical weapons. Assad's beleaguered regime had earlier threatened to unleash the weapons if Syria faced international...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
The world is failing the children of Syria who face a "shockingly grave" plight as the conflict rages on and their right to live in peace is threatened, a British watchdog said on Monday. "Syria: A War on Childhood" by the London-based organization...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
The Assad regime claimed to have retaken control of Damascus on Sunday after its most elite fighting force ruthlessly overwhelmed rebel strongholds in the city's Sunni suburbs. Backed by heavy artillery and helicopter gunships, the 4th Armoured...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
The Israeli military on Sunday said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was still in Damascus despite the fighting that rocked the capital since last week, Reuters reported. The [Syrian] military is still loyal to Assad, despite a very big wave of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Hundreds of trucks loaded with Lebanese produce for exports were stuck at the Masnaa crossing along Lebanon's border with Syria, the National News Agency reported on Sunday. The report added that the trucks were loaded with fresh agricultural produce.
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
22 July 2012 Helicopter gunships have been deployed by the Syrian government against rebel fighters causing heavy casualties in the war-torn country's capital. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy attacks by government forces in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Syria, particularly as regards the implications for the stability and protection of 500,000 Palestine refugees across the country," the agency said. "The current situation in the Damascus neighborhood of Yarmuk and in rural Damascus, home to both...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Regime troops besieged the outskirts of the Damascus district of Mazzeh on Sunday, a monitoring group said, reporting at least 19 people killed across Syria in renewed fighting. "Three people have been killed and 50 injured in the outskirts of Mazzeh,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Over 30 Syrian soldiers crossed into the Lebanese town of Masharee al-Qaa in Bekaa and searched some homes in Aarsal, the Voice of Lebanon (100.5) radio station reported on Sunday.
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Riding a wave of momentum, Syria n rebels made a run on Aleppo Saturday in some of the fiercest fighting seen in the country's largest city, which has been a key bastion of support for President Bashar Assad over the course of the 17-month-old...
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Star Tribune
| 10 months ago
This citizen journalist image shows a destroyed car on a street damaged by tank treads after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. This week, fierce...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 10 months ago
Damascus has been subject to fierce battles between the Syrian opposition and the al-Assad regime over the past few days, with the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming that 300 people had been killed on the first day of fighting,...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Saturday after striking back in Damascus against fighters emboldened by a bomb attack against President Bashar Assad's inner circle. Activists in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city and a northern...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
At least 20 people were killed across Syria on Saturday, as the clock started ticking on a 30-day deadline for violence to abate sufficiently for a troubled UN observer mission to remain in place. At least 12 civilians were among the dead as clashes...
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B92
| 10 months ago
Heavy fighting continued in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Saturday, while Damascus was described as tense but calm. (Beta) On Friday, the UN Security Council voted to extend the mission of UN observers in Syria by 30 days. Fierce clashes have been...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
29 Violence is raging in several locations across Syria, with activists reporting some of the heaviest clashes to date in the country's commercial capital of Aleppo. Government forces and rebels were reportedly clashing for a second day in the city's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Unprecedented clashes between troops and rebels raged into a second day in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Saturday, forcing residents to flee some neighborhoods, activists said. In Damascus, where troops were engaged in a major counter-offensive to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
A Syrian army soldier and a resident look at burned neighborhood in the Al-Midan area in Damascus. (AFP/Louai Beshara) Abdel Jaber, 45, is exhausted after fleeing his home in the Midan district of the Syrian capital of Damascus as fierce fighting...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
20 July 2012 Defence chiefs have placed more than 600 British troops on standby as part of contingency plans to evacuate UK nationals from Lebanon, amid intelligence warnings that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could fall within four weeks. There...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics The Syrian regime yesterday launched a desperate campaign to win back territory from rebels attempting to shake the foundations of its power, driving them out of a key Damascus neighbourhood and sending panicked residents flooding...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Agencies The Bab al-Hawa border post into Turkey stands damaged after rebels seize control of the crossing following a fierce battle with government troops. Syrian troops fought on the corpse-strewn streets of the capital and at far-flung border...
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Leonia Life
| 10 months ago
Syria Syrian troops and tanks on Friday drove rebels from a Damascus neighborhood where some of the heaviest of this week's fighting in the capital left cars gutted and fighters' bodies in the streets. More than 300 people were killed in a single day,...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Thousands flee Damascus as fighting intensifies 20 July 2012 Last updated at 15:01 ET The UN says tens of thousands of Syrians have been crossing the country's borders into neighbouring countries over the past 48 hours as fighting intensifies.
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Associated Press
| 10 months ago
The Assad family's grip on Syria has never looked so tenuous. After 17 months of violence and an estimated 17,000 people killed, a lightning-quick turnaround in the momentum of the civil war has put President Bashar Assad's forces on the defensive, a...
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War In Context
| 10 months ago
As grip on Syria weakens, his whereabouts come into question by News Sources on July 20, 2012 Christian Science Monitor reports : With his capital in open revolt and his regime shaken by the brazen assassination of several key advisers in a bomb...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
VOA News July 20, 2012 Members of the United Nations Security Council are meeting Friday to consider a resolution on the future of the U.N. observer mission in Syria. The meeting in New York follows Thursday's Russian and Chinese veto of a...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
20 July 2012 Syrian troops and tanks today drove rebels from a Damascus neighbourhood where some of the heaviest of this week's fighting in the capital has left cars gutted and fighters' bodies littering the streets. More than 300 people were killed...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Troops fired on protesters in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Friday and small demonstrations were also staged in Damascus as regime forces launched an offensive to retake rebel-held districts there, a watchdog said. The Syrian Observatory for Human...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
As grip on Syria weakens, his whereabouts come into question In the days since key military advisers of Syria's President Assad were assassinated in Damascus, reports have him in the Alawite-dominated coastal region, where he is more secure.
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
While President Bashar Assad's forces and rebels battle in several districts of Damascus, residents in the deserted heart of the Syrian capital fear they are at the eye of a storm that could strike soon. Friday was the first day of the Islamic holy...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
Hisham Ikhtiyar, died Friday of wounds suffered in Wednesday's bombing, the fourth member of Assad's inner circle to die in the blast, according to state-run TV.
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
Israeli defense officials were checking, Friday, the report by the Russian ambassador to France that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is ready to leave his country. According to the Times of London , reports resurfaced that Assad had fled Damascus,...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
VOA News July 20, 2012 Syrian activists say more than 300 people were killed across Syria on Thursday, in what is believed to be the deadliest day in the 16-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The London-based Syrian Observatory for...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
The attack by a suicide bomber which killed Defence Minister Dawoud Rajiha in Damascus on July 18, and injured several other top security officials, including the interior minister and the intelligence chief would appear as though the last wave of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
More than 300 people were killed in violence across Syria on Thursday, making it the deadliest day of a 16-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a Friday...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 10 months ago
Syrian activists say 310 people were killed across the country on Thursday in what was the single deadliest day of fighting since the beginning of the revolt against President Bashar Assad 's regime. Syria's civil war escalated dramatically in the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
After pressing for 16 months for a change in government in Syria, the Obama administration is scrambling to prevent growing bloodshed and the apparent unraveling of President Bashar Assad 's hold on power from paving the way to regional calamity. A...
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The Hindustan Times
| 10 months ago
Rebels seized control of Syria's border crossings with Iraq on the bloodiest day of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, as China and Russia dismayed the West by blocking UN action against his regime. The rebel offensive on Syria's eastern...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Holding such transit points would allow rebels to ferry in supplies and personnel more easily. As fighting continuing for a fifth day in the Syrian capital, rebels on Thursday stormed major crossings along the Turkish and Iraqi borders that could...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
He said in one case the soldiers saw the rebels seize a Syrian lieutenant-colonel, cut off his arms and legs, and kill 22 of his soldiers right in front of them. This morning the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 248...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
Turkey Rebels seized control of sections of Syria's international borders and torched the main police headquarters in the heart of old Damascus, advancing relentlessly after the assassination of Bashar al-Assad's closest lieutenants. The battle for...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 10 months ago
AT least 248 people, including 109 civilians, have died in the bloodiest day since the Syrian uprising began, according to observers. The UK-based Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday's toll included 93 government troops and 46 militants and...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Violence across Syria claimed the lives of at least 250 people Thursday, the highest since the beginning of the revolt against President Bashar Assad's regime, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Syrian rebels battled deep into the...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
A Free Syrian Army soldiersteps on a picture of Assad in Damascus. A bold and deadly attack on President Bashar Assad's security Cabinet is a major psychological and strategic setback that exposes a weakened Syrian establishment unable to protect its...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Syrian rebels have captured a number of positions on the country's borders with Turkey and Iraq. A senior Iraqi official said all the crossings on Syria's eastern frontier had been seized...The push came a day after a bomb claimed the lives of three...
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The Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Invalid E-mail address Add a personal message: (80 character limit) Your E-mail: Invalid E-mail address Sending your article Your article has been sent. Venezuela The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has strongly condemned a rebel...
