NOW Lebanon
Turkey will close its border crossings with neighboring strife-torn Syria on Wednesday until further notice, a Turkish official told AFP. "We have taken such a measure for our citizens for security reasons," said the official, speaking on condition...
NOW Lebanon
Two more Syrian brigadier generals crossed into Turkey Tuesday, bringing to 27 the number of generals who have fled the unrest in Syria, a Foreign Ministry diplomat told AFP. Turkey has given sanctuary to dozens of army defectors who have formed the...
The Daily Telegraph
Syria to trucks, cutting off a vital supply line to the embattled nation as fighting stretched into its fifth day in Aleppo, Syria's largest city...Rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad generally move their weapons and material over...
Voice of America
VOA News July 25, 2012 Syrian opposition activists say the government has sent troop reinforcements to the city of Aleppo, where fierce fighting between rebels and the military continued for a fifth day. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
The Guardian
Nawaf al-Fares, the former Syrian envoy in Iraq: 'probably the most valuable of all potential allies'. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Since the pro-democracy uprising erupted 16 months ago, various countries have sought leverage over Syria's political...
The New York Times
We are now forming suicide cells to make jihad in the name of God, said a speaker in the video using the classical Arabic favored by Al Qaeda. The video, posted on YouTube, is one more bit of evidence that Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists are...