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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
The United States is backing away from the Syrian National Council and reaching out to opposition groups inside Syria in hastened attempts to foster a democratic political transition in the event of President Bashar Assad's fall...Secretary of State...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama continues to face pressure to work with other nations to establish a no-fly zone in Syria to protect civilians and relieve pressure on Syrian rebels. A no-fly zone remains among the options, but experts say it would require...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
The United Nations called an end to its observer mission in Syria overnight as activists reported more bloodletting in an attack on civilians in the main battleground of Aleppo. France's UN ambassador Gerard Araud said after a New York meeting on the...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The United States and its allies are discussing a worst-case scenario that could require tens of thousands of ground troops to go into Syria to secure chemical and biological weapons sites following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's...
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Weekly Arham
| 9 months ago
The man was immediately arrested and brought in for questioning, and though the results of the investigations have not been made public, some observers have conjectured that he could have been an agent of the Syrian regime, told to thrust himself...
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Weekly Arham
| 9 months ago
Iran's efforts to resolve the crisis were met with suspicion by western and Arab states, most of whom boycotted the conference, saying that it was an "attempt at a distraction from the bloodbath going on on the ground and at strengthening Al-Assad's...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
The Syrian government Thursday shelled Aleppo, the country's largest city, killing at least 49 people, activists said. Meanwhile, another kidnapping with a possible tie to the violence in Syria was reported in neighboring Lebanon, CNN reported.
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain all told their nationals to leave at once...Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose Alawite minority is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, has long relied on support from Shi'ite Iran and its...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad carried out one of the bloodiest massacres in Syria's conflict, killing 108 people in Houla district in May, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The victims of the atrocity in the village of Taldou included...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 16, 2012 The United States has commended the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for suspending Syria from the 57-member bloc. In a statement after the move, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the OIC decision sends a "...
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News 24
| 9 months ago
The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation suspended Syria, saying the Muslim world "can no longer accept a regime that massacres its people", as 31 people were reported killed in an air strike. Regime forces were also bombarding the key battleground...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
About 15 Syrians have died in Turkish hospitals of their wounds from an air strike after 100 were sent across the border for treatment following the attack, a Turkish official said Thursday. Many of those injured suffered severe burns in Wednesday's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
A Syrian envoy in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials has praised her host's attitude to her country, contrasting it with that of Western powers, in comments published Thursday. China has joined Russia to repeatedly use their vetoes to scuttle...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
It looks to me like Syria is going the same way as Lebanon and there could be 10 years-plus of conflict...You are right that the strife is likely to go on in the future, along Balkan or, as you put it, Lebanese lines. The sectarian antagonism which...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The United States on Wednesday questioned Russia's commitment to stop violence in Syria, rejecting accusations by Moscow that Western powers were fomenting the unrest by backing rebels. The latest exchange comes one day before Wendy Sherman, the...
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The Age
| 9 months ago
Western countries of seeking regime change in Syria and blamed their increasing support for rebel forces in the civil war as hurting the solidarity of the UN Security Council. The remarks in the official People's Daily newspaper yesterday came as...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
A massive bomb attack and a firefight shook Damascus on Wednesday as pressure mounted on the regime, with the world's largest pan-Islamic bloc poised to suspend Syria over the unrelenting violence. The rebel Free Syrian Army claimed the bomb attack...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Hassan al-Meqdad, who was abducted in Syria (MTV) A prominent Shi'ite Muslim clan in Lebanon has abducted more than 20 rebels with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in retaliation for the kidnapping of a relative. Maher al-Meqdad said that more than 20...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
President Bashar al-Assad's regime controls less than a third of Syria and the army should abandon him for the "side of the people", the country's former prime minister said on Tuesday. Riyad Hijab, who became Syria's most senior defector when he...
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The Independent
| 9 months ago
Suggested Topics A bomb exploded in central Damascus today close to several military buildings and a hotel housing United Nations observers, wounding three people and sending a pillar of black smoke into the sky above the Syrian capital...The bomb,...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 15, 2012 Syrian state television says a bomb has exploded near a hotel used by United Nations observers in Damascus, wounding three people. The report said the blast Wednesday was caused by a bomb planted on a fuel truck. U.N.
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Washington has no plans to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, but Turkey or Jordan might, a top U.S. military officer said. "With regard to the no-fly zone, that is not a front-burner issue for us," Panetta told...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
A general view of damaged buildings in Juret al-Shayah in Homs August 11, 2012. Shaam News Network/Handout Beijing: China's top state newspaper accused Western powers Wednesday of hampering international efforts to end the bloody conflict in Syria,...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Protests spread and strengthen, with calls for the regime's fall...Western and Arab states later impose sanctions on his regime...The Free Syrian Army (FSA), set up in Turkey by a deserter from Assad's army, claims an attack on a Damascus military...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Syria would accept Lakhdar Brahimi as the new UN-Arab League mediator, but the veteran envoy wants formal UN Security Council support before accepting the post, diplomats said Tuesday. The 15-nation Security Council is deeply divided over the Syria...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
An emergency summit of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) began late Tuesday with a proposal to suspend conflict-wracked Syria, a move strongly opposed by Iran. A draft final statement obtained by AFP said the summit "approves...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his sniper rifle from a house in Aleppo. Foreign ministers from leading Western states and Turkey have discussed ways to accelerate the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad and prepare for the aftermath, as...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Treasury announced on Tuesday that they are removing sanctions that were in place against the former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab. Hijab resigned his post on August 6, after which he and his family defected to Jordan with the help of the Free...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Western foreign ministers to coordinate ways to hasten the end of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime, her spokesperson said Tuesday. Clinton, following up on weekend talks in Turkey, held...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
The United States on Tuesday called on China to use its influence to press Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end more than a year of bloodshed as senior US and Syrian envoys visited Beijing. "Our hope is that the Chinese will do what they can and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The United States on Tuesday lifted sanctions against former Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, who defected earlier this month, as it urged more individuals to abandon Bashar al-Assad's regime. In a move aimed at convincing members of Assad's inner...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Riyad Hijab, the Syrian prime minister who fled to Jordan last week, declared in his first news conference in Amman on Tuesday that the Syrian government is falling apart and has ceded control of large parts of the country to rebel forces. The regime...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Jordan opened its first formal camp for Syrian refugees two weeks ago, after more than 140,000 Syrians fleeing the conflict had already entered. The kingdom is pleading for international aid as rows of tents mushroom on a sun-baked expanse of tawny...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
A top aide to Syrian President Bashar Assad was due to arrive in China on Tuesday for talks about a political resolution to the violence in the conflict-torn country. China said late Monday that Bouthaina Shaaban, a special adviser to Assad, would...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels said Monday that they had shot down a Syrian fighter jet for the first time, raising new questions about the opposition's military capabilities, and whether Syria's control of the skies might be threatened. Syrian authorities insisted...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
A senior aide to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has flown to China for talks on the crisis, officials say. The Chinese foreign ministry said Bouthaina Shaaban would meet Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi later. The ministry said it was part of its...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
The awful things that could have happened had the United States intervened in Syria are now happening anyway...Jihadists have entered the fray, and the death toll has passed 20,000...Had President Obama committed the United States to get involved in...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Battlelines in Syria are growing more distinct as rebels establish control over more territory, increasing the chances that airstrikes or other military intervention by the United States and its allies might work, analysts say. In the early stages of...
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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
This image made from amateur video shows a Syrian plane downed over this eastern province yesterday. Syrian rebels claimed they downed a fighter jet yesterday in what would be a major coup for the opposition but the regime seized the upper hand in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Syrian army rebels sit along the road after a battle in Aleppo's Salaheddin district. (AFP/Phil Moore) Opposition fighters appealed for the international community to come to their aid as Syrian troops advanced into a new rebel-held area of the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The United States said Monday it has not ruled out any option to bring about the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, following renewed speculation about a possible no-fly zone. White House spokesperson Jay Carney was asked about comments...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
The jet apparently went down in Mohassan, a small town southeast of Deir al-Zour, a flashpoint in the battle between opposition forces and President Bashar al-Assad's government. The official Syrian Arab News Agency posted an article claiming the jet...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
Speaking in Tehran, he repeated Syria's assertion that it was being attacked by "terrorist" groups. "The government of Bashar al-Assad welcomes logical discussions with opposition groups in Syria," he was quoted as saying. "The main condition is that...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
If the rebels indeed managed to shoot down a fighter jet, it would mark a major leap forward in their military capabilities as well as a big blow to the regime, which started using its air force intensively in the civil war over the past weeks. The...
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The Hindu
| 9 months ago
AP A Muslim woman holding a poster during a rally calling for an end to the violence against fellow Muslims in Syria and Rakhine state of Myanmar, in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday. Photo: AP Syrian Opposition rebels said on Monday that they had shot...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
The head of the United Nations monitors in Syria said on Monday violence was intensifying across the country, blaming both President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebel fighters for ignoring the plight of civilians. "It is clear that violence is...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Syrian ground-attack aircraft fired on Aleppo Monday, escalating bomber missile attacks that prompted rebels to demand foreign forces create a no-fly zone. The artillery bombardment in Syria's largest city and commercial center focused on the...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Rebels fighting government forces in Syria's commercial capital Aleppo "will definitely be defeated," Muallem said on an unannounced visit to key ally Iran. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Muslim countries to show greater unity ahead of a...
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
August 13, 2012 A Syrian boy is seen at the Zaatari refugee camp outside of the Jordanian city of Mafraq on August 12. AFP/GettyImages) If the Syrian regime collapses under the weight of civil war, there will be a contingency plan in place to deal...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 10 months ago
Minister Bob Carr again has called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and for negotiations to begin between waring sides. As fighting continued in parts of Syria, the Arab League on Sunday postponed a foreign ministers' meeting set to...
