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War In Context
| 10 months ago
Opposition sources said the shelling was an attempt to drive fighters inside Aleppo from their strongholds and to stop their comrades outside the city from resupplying them. They are shelling at random to instil a state of terror, said Anwar Abu Ahed,...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
Fears of massacre as Assad's forces start onslaught to recapture key city U.S. EST, 27 July 2012 Syrian government forces yesterday launched an attack on the country's largest city in what Britain and the U.S. warned may become a massacre.
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
On the streets of Damascus, there are thick plumes of smoke rising from rubble, the sounds of helicopter gunships in the air and long lines to buy bread. In the past week, residents who had been sharing their homes with Syrians who fled to the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
We are very concerned about the situation in Aleppo," White House spokesperson Jay Carney said, condemning Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's "heinous, reprehensible" assault on Syrian civilians. "The kinds of weaponry that they're using against...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Sinan Gul/Anadolu Agency/EPA Syrian forces are continuing to mass on the outskirts of the country's second city, Aleppo, ahead of what Damascus has warned will be "the mother of all battles". Rebels and regime forces have sent reinforcements to Syria...
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Sky News
| 10 months ago
The movement of President Bashar al Assad's forces comes after several days of intense fighting in which the Free Syrian Army claim to have taken control of a number of neighbourhoods. Aleppo is vital to the regime as it is the commercial centre of...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
As recently as 2010, documents show that the European Union provided $14.6 million in technical assistance and equipment, some intended for chemical plants, in a deal with the Syrian Ministry of Industry. Diplomats and arms experts have identified...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
The latest security force operation came amid reports of troops and tanks massing outside the once tightly controlled city, whose path to conflict corresponds to the growing horror many Syrians have voiced in the face of accounts of persistent...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
A showdown between rebels and government troops in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, is imminent, the U.N.'s human rights office said Friday, as the Red Cross pulled some of its foreign staff from Damascus out of concern for the safety of its workers.
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Ban Ki-moon signs the guest book at the Memorial Center in Potocari, on July 26, 2012. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said he was "deeply" concerned about reports of the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria, and demanded...
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Fox
| 10 months ago
Associated Press A showdown between rebels and government troops in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, is imminent, the U.N.'s human rights office said Friday, as the Red Cross pulled some of its foreign staff from Damascus out of concern for the safety...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
World leaders tonight called on President Bashar Assad to stop the massacre of civilians in Syria's second city. United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, flanked by Foreign Secretary William Hague, demanded a halt to the feared slaughter in...
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Asia Times
| 10 months ago
This is the grim message reinforced by armored columns rolling into the major cities, and of relentless air and artillery strikes on the capital Damascus and the commercial heart of the country, the northern city Aleppo. Assad tried to stick to the...
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War In Context
| 10 months ago
Russia sees the assassination as a direct attack on moderate Islam by Islamic radicals. And the veto, Russia's third since the Syrian crisis began, is grounded in a deep-rooted policy of war against one enemy: Islamic radicals. Russia supports Syrian...
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War In Context
| 10 months ago
The regime is concentrating its elite forces, and their armor, artillery and air support, for an all-out assault to recapture those parts of the city seized by insurgents. The outcome will likely mirror last week's battle in Damascus, where President...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
A portrait of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, burning during clashes between rebels and Syrian troops near Aleppo. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images Bashar al-Assad 's military machine is on the brink of logistical meltdown and...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
The Syrian government is still in full control of its chemical weapons stockpiles, Israeli defence officials said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to calm fears that a non-conventional conflict could be looming. Syria's chemical weapons stockpile,...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Terming reports of opposition gaining ground inside Syria a good news, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said it is still "not too late" for the Assad regime to commence planning transition in Syria. "We do believe it is not too late for...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
France has said despite the Arab League making proposal of safe exit for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, it would not earn him an impunity, Xinhua reported. "In the end, for him ... there will be no impunity .
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
Syria sent thousands of troops surging towards Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, where its forces have been pounding rebel fighters from the air, engulfing the country's largest city in total warfare to put down a revolt.
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
In a brief statement he read on the television network Al Arabiya , General Tlass, 48, who left Syria this month for an undisclosed location and is thought to be in Paris with his family, called on Syrians to unite to build a post-Assad future for...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
Colonel Richard Kemp has warned that Britain risks being sucked into military action in Syria to prevent bloodshed spreading Britain risks being sucked into military action in Syria to prevent bloodshed spreading, a former Army commander has warned.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
As the crisis in Syria spirals out of control, thousands of citizens are fleeing the country seeking safety and telling stories of bombed houses and ruined lives. Fierce clashes were reported in the country's largest city of Aleppo on Tuesday, one...
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Embassy
| 10 months ago
T here is little doubt Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days in power are numbered. As every Middle East analyst now agrees that the recent escalation in violence signals the beginning of the end, the jingoism of the international media is matched...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Manaf Tlass has called on Syrians to unite and start building a post-President Bashar al-Assad Syria as he made his first public appearance since defecting from the regime. Reading a prepared statement on the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya television channel,...
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Truthdig
| 10 months ago
Did it begin in repercussion to the Arab uprisings elsewhere?...The story commonly offered is that children scribbled some grafitti against President Bashar al-Assad on a wall in the provinces, and the police brutally beat or tortured or killed them...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Regime fighter jets bombed the country's most populous city yesterday, according to reports from the ground, in a dramatic escalation of the conflict which drew widespread condemnation. The aerial bombardment of eastern areas of...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Assad has crossed too many red lines to be part of any transition to democracy. The once reformist eye doctor, who early in his presidency pledged to open up and modernize his country, has become a monstrous example of how power can corrupt and...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Wednesday 25 July 2012 The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) will not accept a unity government led by a member of the regime, spokeswoman Bassma Kodmani said. "There was never any question of a national unity government led by a member of the...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Syrian troops killed up to 30 worshippers as they were entering a mosque to attend Ramadan evening prayers in a village northwest of the city of Hama, opposition activists said Tuesday, as helicopters strafed the country's second city Aleppo. Troops...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Om Jamal crossed into Lebanon from her home in the Syrian village of Ain Al-Tennour, where forces loyal to dictator Bashar Assad ransacked homes and terrorized residents. Her village is part of the region of Reef Qusayr, where people of different...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Defected brigadier general calls on Syrian military to denounce crimes committed by Assad's forces. Defected Syrian brigadier general Manaf Tlas called on Tuesday for the Syrian military to denounce what he described as crimes committed by Syrian...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Three Syrian opposition figures were released shortly after being abducted in the Bekaa Valley Monday, the state-run National News Agency said Tuesday, while three other Syrians, identified as Tarek Annad, Ahmad Naser and Farid Mustafa Naser, were...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Rebels accused President Bashar Assad Tuesday of moving chemical weapons to Syria's borders, a day after his beleaguered regime said it would use its stockpiles if attacked. Israel's armed forces chiefs, meanwhile, said Syria's chemical weapons...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Increasingly under pressure by rebels intent on unseating him, Bashar al-Assad has considered using chemical weapons against his enemies but Washington and Moscow have formed an unlikely alliance to force him to abandon such plans. Analysts and...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Israel's electronic listening post atop Mount Hermon overlooking Damascus is working overtime as Israeli military chiefs monitor the accelerating collapse of the Syrian President Bashar Assad's Syrian regime in a 17-month-old uprising that became a...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
The Syrian government is still in full control of its chemical weapons stockpiles, Israeli defence officials said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to calm fears that a non-conventional war could be looming. Syria's 16-month-old conflict has spread...
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Kuwait Times
| 10 months ago
Syria's rebels accused strongman Bashar Al-Assad yesterday of moving chemical weapons to the country's borders, a day after his beleaguered regime said it would use its stockpiles if attacked. Helicopter gunships strafed rebel neighbourhoods of...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
Israel's military chief says the Syrian army has stepped up security around the country's chemical weapons stocks...Benny Gantz did not offer details in his remarks Tuesday to parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee. Gantz said the Syrian...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Fighting between rebels and army troops raged overnight and into Tuesday in the central districts of Aleppo and Damascus as a senior Israel i defense official said his country should determine the right time to take out Syria's chemical and...
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Haaretz
| 10 months ago
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that if Syria's chemical weapons were to get into the wrong hands, such as those of Hezbollah, IDF military action could turn into an unintentionally broad campaign. On Monday, a senior Israeli official...
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Ynet News
| 10 months ago
Syria Infighting 'Situation may change.' Gantz Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg Gantz tells Knesset Defense Committee strike on chemical weapons stockpiles may drag Israel into major war; says defections motivated Syrian rebels Yoav Zitun During a Knesset...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 10 months ago
Syria could lose control of chemical weapons IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that it is feared the Syrian regime will lose control of Syria's chemical weapons. "At this moment they (the Syrians)...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
He also warned that Israeli action against the chemical weapons could lead to a larger-scale conflict than originally planned. They [Syrian military forces Y.K.] are guarding it and have even increased security so it wont fall into rogue hands...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons is "under the full control" of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a top Israeli defense official said on Tuesday. "At the moment, the Syrian regime is fighting for its very existence, but all of its...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Syria threatened to use chemical and biological weapons if it faces a foreign attack, admitting for the first time it possessed weapons of mass destruction. "Any stocks of WMD or any unconventional weapons that the Syrian Arab Republic possesses will...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
The comments, which were widely viewed as Syria's first official acknowledgment that it possesses such weapons, came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued his sternest warning yet that Israel might take action to prevent Syria's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
The Syrian government has moved chemical weapons to airports on its borders, the rebel Free Syrian Army said Tuesday, a day after the regime warned it could use them if attacked by an outside force. "We in the joint command of the Free Syrian Army...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 10 months ago
As has been the case throughout the Arab popular uprisings of the past 20 months, Israelis have viewed the turmoil gripping Syria with wariness. President Bashar Assad was no ally of Israel'sthe countries technically remain in a state of warbut the...
