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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies A Syrian cleans the roof of his house which was partly destroyed in a government airstrike in the town of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo. Fierce fighting raged in northern and eastern Syria Friday as rebels opposed to the government of...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
But without a no-fly zone, civilians, like those today in Al-Bab, find themselves constantly vulnerable to aerial assaults. Al-Bab, Syria The mood was triumphant today as Al-Bab residents emptied from mosques and marched to the city's Freedom Square...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Russia on Friday repeated a call for an immediate end to the violence in Syria in a statement issued a day after the UN Security Council discussed the humanitarian crisis in the strife-torn country. "The violence in Syria has to be ended immediately,"...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
A protest against the Syrian regime was held on Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported. The protesters, who marched through the city's streets, voiced their support for the Free Syrian Army. Lebanon's...
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Inter Press Service
| 9 months ago
We meet at a private home in the Kurdish border village Gundik Shalal, 750 kilometres northeast of Damascus. The barracks where Furat Azir (that's how the policeman wants to be identified) has spent the last two years is less than a kilometre away...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Maybe in these liberated zones Syrians who want to flee the regime will find refuge which in turn makes it less necessary to cross the border whether in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan or Iraq," Fabius said after a UN Security Council meeting in New York on...
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War In Context
| 9 months ago
The personnel moves come on top of what these people say are Tehran's stepped-up efforts to aid the military of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with cash and arms. That would indicate that regional capitals are being drawn deeper into Syria's...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
France and UK not ruling out' Syrian no-fly zone Published: 31 August, 2012, 02:56 British Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks at a press conference on the situation in Syria on August 30, 2012 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Britain...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
The Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia and Qatar who support the Free Syrian Army favour a regional agreement of which Iran will be a part.' Illustration by Satoshi Kambayashi Photograph: Guardian A crucial shift is now taking place in the Middle...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
On Wednesday, fighters in Idlib said they had attacked a military airport and destroyed at least 5 government helicopters, and on Monday, opposition fighters said they had downed an attack helicopter over the Damascus suburbs. The government disputed...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Dissident Syrian diplomats and civil servants are covertly working from the inside to help opposition forces, a diplomat who recently defected from the regime told UN rights officials Thursday. Danny al-Baaj, who went public with his opposition to...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 9 months ago
The Free Syrian Army [FSA] has also announced a new strategy to target Syrian regime aircraft on the ground in order to destroy the largest possible number of targets. Speaking exclusively to Asharq Al-Awsat, FSA Commander Colonel Riad al-Asaad...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
ET, 08/30/2012 TheWashingtonPost Assad applauds the heroic' Syrian army in a TV interview Syria's President Bashar al-Assad referred to the country's multiple defections of government officials as a cleansing in a rare televised interview broadcast...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
During the interview with Syria's pro-government Addounia TV channel, Assad also shrugged off recent damaging defections by senior regime figures, saying the government facilitated their exit, knowing the defectors would lose political credibility
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
Associated Press A Bosnian woman who fled Syria says the war in the Arab country is worse than the fighting in her homeland 20 years ago. A group of 35 Bosnians landed at the Sarajevo airport Thursday, flying in from Istanbul after what they...
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The Journal Gazette
| 9 months ago
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday predicted victory for his military in the bloody civil war and made it clear he wouldn't be stepping down, snubbing members of the international community who have called for his ouster and signaling a...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Turkey urged the UN to protect displaced Syrians inside their country yesterday as President Bashar Assad, waging a fierce war which has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people, dismissed talk of a buffer zone. Assad said in an interview broadcast...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
Turkey bears direct responsibility for the blood being shed in Syria, the network quoted Assad as having said in an interview with the pro-regime local television channel Ad-Dounia .
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Epoch Times
| 9 months ago
August 29, 2012 Demonstrators walk behind a banner during a march in Sydney on Aug. 5 held in support of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad and against the intervention of foreign powers in Syria. Organized by a group calling itself '...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies An opposition fighter carries the body of his brother, who was killed in the Saif al-Dawla neighborhood of Aleppo. Syrian President Bashar Assad said Wednesday his regime needed more time to win the war raging in his country, acknowledging...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad claimed Wednesday to be gaining ground in the bloody conflict that has racked the country for nearly 18 months and suggested that recent defections by government and military officials were actually helpful. We're...
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Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
29 August 2012 President Bashar al-Assad said talk of a Western-imposed buffer zone on Syrian territory was unrealistic and that the situation in his country 'is better', but more time was needed to win the conflict against rebels trying to overthrow...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has rejected a proposal by Turkey and some Western countries of creating a buffer zone' for civilians within his country as "unrealistic. In an interview with Syria's pro-regime Addounia television, Assad declared: "I...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Bashar al-Assad gives an interview to the pro-regime Addounia TV channel, in which he praised the country's 'heroic' armed forces. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Syria 's president, Bashar al-Assad , has said there is no immediate prospect of an end to...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
The situation is practically better but it has not been decided yet...Assad said that he was still living in the presidential palace in Damascus, rebuffing rumours about his whereabouts since the July 18 bombing which killed four of his top security...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Washington and Ankara have agreed to create an intelligence shield to prevent militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party from freely entering and operating on the Turkish territory from Syria as they discussed "after Assad" future. Assad addresses...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Syria's embattled president says the unrest in his country has gotten "much better" after 18 months of violence in which thousands have died. Bashar Assad made the assertion in an interview airing Wednesday with pro-government al-Dounia TV, CNN...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
A Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover during clashes with Syrian Army in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of central Aleppo in this August 7, 2012 file photo. This rebel had been firing at the Syrian army when he came under attack from sniper fire, he...
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Embassy
| 9 months ago
I n recent weeks, as the violence in Syria continues to escalate, those Western nations supporting the rebel faction raised the spectre of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad employing his chemical weapons against his own people. This forced...
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Al Jazeera English
| 9 months ago
43 The Syrian government's battle to put down the mass uprising that began last year is moving forward, and the situation has become better, President Bashar al-Assad says in a television interview to be broadcast on Wednesday.
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 29, 2012 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday his government is fighting a "regional and global battle" and that more time was needed to win the conflict against anti-government rebels trying to overthrow him. His comments...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
A prominent France-based Syrian dissident resigned on Tuesday from the embattled country's main opposition coalition, accusing it of failing to protect the population against "horrific massacres." "The project did not achieve its objectives, it did...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Syria needs more time to end the conflict raging across the country, President Bashar al-Assad said in a television interview to be broadcast by pro-regime Al-Dunia channel on Wednesday. Assad also scoffed at an idea being championed by Turkey of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Syrian president claims that the country is in the midst of a global and regional war and therefore "victory needs time." Photo: Sana / Reuters Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday claimed that Syria is in the midst of a global and regional war...
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DAWN
| 9 months ago
Syria needs more time to win the battleraging across the country, President Bashar al-Assad said in a television interview to be broadcast Wednesday. In exerpts of the interview broadcast by pro-regime Al-Dunia channel, Assad also scoffed at an idea...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
Syrian military helicopters dropped thousands of leaflets over Damascus and its suburbs Tuesday, urging rebels to hand over their weapons or face "inevitable death" as part of a widening and deadly offensive to recapture areas near the capital that...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
At least 62 people were killed in an assault on the suburbs of Damascus on Monday, according to opposition activists, as the anti-Assad uprising is about to enter its 18th month in September. The United Nations says more than 18,000 people have been...
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Daily Nation
| 9 months ago
Rating In Summary The Sunni Muslim town of some 200,000 people is seen as a stronghold of opposition to the minority Alawite-led regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey has called for establishment of protected buffer zones inside Syria to...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Hollande said he hoped an internationally recognized alternative Syrian government would speed the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. The United States supports such a unified movement, but on Monday it declined to endorse Hollande's proposal, which...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
Morsi stressed that Russia and China, which have so far resisted international intervention in Syria, must support Syria's ordinary citizens.
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
Greg Myre The focus of the fighting in Syria is once again on the capital Damascus. A Syrian military helicopter crashed in a ball of fire on Monday on the outskirts of the capital. Internet showed the flaming helicopter going down , trailed by a...
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GMA News
| 9 months ago
French President Francois Hollande warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that any use of the country's chemical weapons would be a legitimate justification for military intervention. "With our partners we remain very vigilant regarding...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
At least 35 people, including children, were killed as Syrian forces backed by combat helicopters battled rebels in a new front in and around east Damascus today, a monitoring group said. Rebels from the Free Syrian Army claimed to have downed a...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
A Syrian military helicopter has been shot down in Damascus, plummeting to the ground wreathed in smoke and flames. Syrian rebels, who have been battling against the army in an ongoing uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad...
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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
A Syrian military helicopter came down in flames in Damascus yesterday as President Bashar Al-Assad's air force strafed and bombarded rebel-held districts in the capital and in Aleppo. State television confirmed a helicopter had crashed in the Syrian...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
According to activists' accounts, government forces retook the Damascus suburb of Daraya from rebel control three days ago and have since gone on a killing spree. The European Union condemned on Monday a "massacre" in the town of Daraya near Damascus,...
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Al Jazeera English
| 9 months ago
31 Activists claim more than 300 bodies were discovered after alleged mass killing in Damascus's Daraya district [AFP] A Syrian military helicopter has caught fire and crashed after it was apparently hit during fighting between government forces and ...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
A series of explosions rocked the city from about dawn and a watchdog reported heavy shelling and fighting between government troops and rebels in several eastern and north-eastern districts and nearby towns. State television said the chopper came...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
When the Syrian uprising started, Fatima Zahra sent her five sons off to join the rebel forces and battle the regime, but she wanted to find a way to do more. So over the course of several months, she transformed her house into a rear base of support...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
In a handsome district of Istanbul, where smart apartment blocks line the steep slopes and roof terraces boast views of the Golden Horn waterway, the next stage of Syria's revolution is taking shape. The streets offer the distractions of coffee shops...
