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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies A Syrian air force fighter plane fires a rocket during a strike on the village of Tel Rafaat, 37 km north of Aleppo. President Bashar Assad named a new prime minister Thursday to replace Syria's most senior government defector as his forces...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Aleppo district of Salaheddin under a deadly rain of shellfire, with the showdown battle for Syria's commercial capital raging into a second day. "We have staged a tactical withdrawal from Salaheddin...Regime forces are now advancing into Salaheddin,"...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
17 The Syrian army has renewed its heavy shelling of rebel-held areas of Aleppo, the country's commercial capital, anti-government activists have said...Shooting was heard in several suburbs of the northern city, according to the Local Co-ordination...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syria's army, locked in a fierce battle for control of Aleppo, pounded rebel-held areas of the commercial capital on Thursday, rights activists reported. An intense bombardment rocked the neighbourhoods of Hanano, Saif al-Dawla, Shaar and Shakur from...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
The Syrian city of Aleppo has come under fresh bombardment, activists say, as the government attempts to retake districts seized by rebel fighters. Several areas of the city were reported to have come under attack, including strafing from helicopter...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Salah al-Din clashes key in battle for Aleppo 8 August 2012 Last updated at 13:01 ET Fierce fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels is taking place in a strategic district of the biggest city, Aleppo. Observers say controlling the city...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
Syria's state television is reporting victory by the armed forces in Salaheddine, which has been the focus of fighting between the army and the rebels for days. But a colonel with the Free Syrian Army says the rebels are holding their ground as the...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
When Syrian forces fired machine guns and rockets on her neighborhood, Umm Mohammad prayed for her son a soldier in the army she fears may kill her. It was a shock to see the Syrian revolt turn her city of Aleppo into a war zone, she says, but the...
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CNN Blog
| 10 months ago
In parts of Aleppo on Monday, snipers fired from roofs of buildings and artillery fire rang out, while other areas of the city are oddly normal. CNN's Ben Wedeman and crew are some of the few international reporters in Syria, whose government has...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Syria's army shelled rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Monday as violence killed 91 people across the country, including 57 civilians, 24 troops and 10 rebels, a watchdog said. At least 17 civilians were killed in the city of Aleppo, while four were...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Syrian rebels prepare to advance into the Salaheddin district in the northern city of Aleppo to fight against forces loyal to the government on August 4, 2012. Syrian regime warplanes pounded rebel positions in second city Aleppo ahead of a...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
On Syria 's battlefronts, news reports on Monday spoke of continued clashes in Aleppo, the country's commercial heart and largest city, while in Damascus, the capital, word began to emerge of an attack on the state television station there the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
48 Rebel-held neighbourhoods in Aleppo have come under heavy shelling and sniper fire in recent days [Reuters] A bomb has targeted the Syrian state television and radio headquarters in Damascus, injuring several people, the country's information...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Heavy fighting shook the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Monday as the escalating battle moved toward a 12th century castle in the center of the Old City. At least five neighborhoods of Syria's largest city were under intense fire from regime...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Iran's Al-Alam Arabic-language network. "All of them are pilgrims who wanted to go to religious sites," he said. Syrian rebels on Sunday posted an online video of 48 Iranians kidnapped the day before in Damascus, and charged they included members of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Minister of Foreign Affairs Adnan Mansour said in remarks published on Monday that the latest media reports regarding the abducted Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Syria were contradictory and not worthy of attention. It is not worth considering the...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Free Syrian Army fighters fire their rifles during clashes with Syrian Army soldiers in the Saleheddine neighborhood of central Aleppo. Syria: The young rebel fighters' mission was clear: to rid an Aleppo neighborhood of Syrian army snipers who had...
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MarketWatch
| 10 months ago
Free Syrian Army fighters clash with Syrian Army soldiers Sunday in the Salah al- Din neighborhood of central Aleppo. MarketWatch) The Syrian civil war continued to center on the country's biggest city of Aleppo on Sunday, with at least 20,000 pro-...
