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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
NorwayNorwegian media are quoting the outgoing U.N. chief observer in Syria as saying it's just a matter of time before Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime crumbles...Robert Mood also told a news conference in Oslo on Friday that Syria's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Britain on Friday said a Syrian regime attack on the second city of Aleppo would be unacceptable and could lead to huge loss of civilian life and a humanitarian disaster. "I am deeply concerned by reports that the Syrian Government is amassing its...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Hicham Hassan, adding that 50 international and local staff would remain in Damascus. The Syrian capital is the only place where the Geneva-based humanitarian organization maintains a presence, while the Syrian Arab Red Crescent is mainly operational...
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CNN Blog
| 11 months ago
As the months-long violence in Syria engulfs two key cities , Damascus and Aleppo, CNN's Ivan Watson has been traveling through villages in the area. He and the crew are some of the few international reporters in Syria, whose government has been...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
And as demonstrations continued, President Bashar al-Assad's forces shelled neighborhoods in Aleppo with helicopters, according to the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria. Regime forces fired at protesters coming out of the Al-Ghafran...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
A group of Syrian government officials visited Tehran, one of Damascus' few remaining allies, to approve the deals. Share This Story Under terms of the memorandum of understanding, Iran's energy ministry will provide Syria with electricity, import...
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Russia Today
| 11 months ago
Almost a half of all Russians are against foreign intervention into the Syrian crisis. However, the majority of the population support neither side of the conflict, polls have revealed. Some 49 per cent of respondents would not want the events in...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
A Turkish F-16 fighter jet leaves its hangar for take off from Incirlik airbase in the southern Turkish city of Adana July 4, 2012. Turkey has set up a secret base with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct vital military and communications aid to...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
July 25, 2012, shows forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fighting in the al-Qadam district of Damascus. President Bashar Assad's artillery pounded rebel-held areas around Aleppo on Friday, preparing the ground for an onslaught on Syria's biggest...
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AKI
| 11 months ago
Italy Friday urged the world to intensify pressure on embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to prevent further carnage as his regime began what local media called "the mother of all battles" in its week-long assault on rebels in the city of...
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Arab News
| 11 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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BBC
| 11 months ago
The former head of the UN observer mission in Syria says it is "only a matter of time" until President Bashar al-Assad's government falls. But Norwegian Maj Gen Robert Mood, who left Syria last week, said Mr Assad's fall would not necessarily mean an...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
The former head of the UN observer mission in Syria, Robert Mood, said Friday that President Bashar al-Assad's fall was only a matter of time but that his exit might not end the conflict. "Sooner or later, the regime will fall," said the Norwegian...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
A former Syrian general who is now trying to plot the downfall of the Assad regime from a refugee camp in Turkey has called for an inclusive interim government to avert a descent into all-out civil war. "The way out of the current crisis is the...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News July 27, 2012 Syrian opposition activists say government forces are continuing a ground and air assault on the nation's largest city, Aleppo, in what the United States says it fears could become a massacre. The Britain-based Syrian...
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Al Ahram
| 11 months ago
Recent developments have favoured the revolution in Syria even as the regime has escalated its ferocity and violence, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus After the bombing of the headquarters of the Syrian National Security Office that killed at least...
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Al Ahram
| 11 months ago
Residents said that cluster bombs had been used in attacks on some residential districts and that three-quarters of the capital's neighbourhoods had been bombed or had witnessed fierce battles. The number of dead in Damascus alone has risen to nearly...
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Al Ahram
| 11 months ago
Those at the meeting, which convened on Monday, said that the Syrian president should leave office and end the security clampdown that has been taking place in the country over the past 15 months in a bid to stay in power. "The time has ended for...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Islamist militants are probably active in Syria but they wield less influence on the ground than the other rebel forces fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad, the Pentagon said Thursday. The main Islamist element is likely being provided by Al-...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Lessons from Balkans conflict' A Syrian MP from Aleppo has fled to Turkey, Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency says. Ikhlas Badawi, a mother of six, said she was defecting in protest at the "violence against the people". Meanwhile, another...
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News 24
| 11 months ago
Rebel forces were bracing on Friday for a decisive "mother of all" battles in Aleppo, as Washington warned the Syrian army could be preparing to carry out a massacre in the country's second city. The Syrian army has been sending waves of...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
The offensive is expected after morning prayers, according to the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria. Plans are under way to send 300 more fighters to bolster forces in Aleppo, where 18 of 22 rebel brigades are located, according to a...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Regime assault troops and armored columns positioned around Syria's densely populated commercial capital were poised Friday to attack, residents said. Syrian military commanders appeared to be waiting for reinforcements before issuing invasion orders,...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 11 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days may be numbered but his fall could be slow and chaos could ensue. Few analysts, foreign governments or intelligence agencies believe Assad himself faces any fate other than negotiated flight or death at the...
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Pak Tribune
| 11 months ago
Damascus and Aleppo came under shell fire on Thursday as troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stepped up efforts to crush rebels threatening the government's two main power centres. One of the most senior figures to defect from Assad's inner...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama sent a letter to Syrian President Bashar Assad seeking a new start to a long-strained relationship...Now, nearing the end of his first term, with a presidential election looming in November, Obama is moving cautiously toward...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Antonio Pampliega/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Syrians watched television on Tuesday in an underground shelter in Al-Bueda, near Homs. Residents have built their own shelters underneath their houses...Rebel fighters and activists said Wednesday...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 11 months ago
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...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Syria's regime carried out air strikes using jet fighters for the first time on Tuesday, escalating its struggle against rebels in the city of Aleppo. Insurgents from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) claimed to have come under direct assault from two...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
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...
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News 24
| 11 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. Recent days have seen...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that the Syrian insurgents fighting to topple President Bashar Assad were making territorial gains that would eventually become safe havens for "further actions by the opposition." Clinton also...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
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...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Violence raged in Syria's second city Aleppo overnight and into Wednesday morning, as regular troops battled rebels forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based watchdog reported clashes in the district of Bustan al-Qasr in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
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...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Britain will find it increasingly difficult to avoid taking part in action in Syria, a former Army commander warned today. Colonel Richard Kemp, who led UK forces in Afghanistan, said the escalating civil war meant it was more likely that western...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
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...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
54 Zeenews Bureau Aleppo: Fighter jet bombs and helicopters struck Aleppo on Tuesday after rebels took control of certain areas of the city. Thousands of troops, along with their tanks and artillery, were reportedly being sent to the city to fight...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
Breaking News 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. Recent...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
A burnt building in the flashpoint Khalidiya district of the central Syrian city of Homs. A commercial hub and home to 2.5 million people, Syria's second city Aleppo has become a new front in the country's 16-month uprising, after being largely...
