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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
With Syria marking the bloodiest month yet in the civil war and mounting fears of turmoil in surrounding countries, expectations are low that the new United Nations envoy to Syria will have any more success than his predecessor, Kofi Annan. Most...
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MarketWatch
| 9 months ago
A civilian lies on the street after being shot by a sniper at El Amreeyeh neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, on Saturday...Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has increasingly been relying on the air defense facility and airport under attack...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
The UN's new envoy to Syria said on Saturday that President Bashar Assad's regime should realize that the need for change was both "urgent" and "necessary" and that it must meet the "legitimate" demands of the Syrian people.
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Hackensack Chronicle
| 9 months ago
The new U.N. envoy to Syria says President Bashar Assad's regime should realize that the need for change is both "urgent" and "necessary." In an interview with al-Arabiya television on Saturday, Lakhdar Brahimi also told the Syrian government that it...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Syrian government warplanes and ground forces bombarded Aleppo on Saturday as troops struggle to clear the country's largest city of lightly-armed rebel forces nearly five weeks after they stormed their way into it, activists said. Share This Story...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Syrian warplanes and ground forces pounded the country's largest city Aleppo with bombs and mortar rounds on Saturday as soldiers clashed with rebels in its narrow streets, activists said. The latest violence shows that government troops are still...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels have attacked regime air force facilities as Russia warned it would be "naive" for outside powers to expect President Bashar al Assad to call an end to fighting first. Anti-government forces seized an air defence facility and attacked a...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Rebels seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force on which President Bashar Assad is increasingly relying to crush his opponents. The attacks in...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels launched deadly attacks on the military Saturday in a campaign increasingly targeting its air power, as President Bashar Assad's traditional ally Russia said it was "naive" to expect him not to fight back. Rebel fighters captured the...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
The Syrian government says it has repelled a major rebel attack on an air base near the northern city of Aleppo. State TV showed vehicles with mounted machine guns and other equipment seized from the Rasm al-Abboud base attack. This was one of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said no steps could be taken to create safe zones to protect refugees inside Syria without a UN resolution. "We cannot take such a step without any resolution at the UN Security Council," Erdogan...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
A rebel unit of army defectors launched a major offensive against security facilities in Syria's largest city of Aleppo, and anti-regime forces targeted air bases to try to reduce the military threat from the skies, activists said Friday. The...
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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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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Turkey's non-starter call for a humanitarian safe zone inside Syria offers the clearest sign yet that diplomacy to end the bloodshed in the most violent uprising of the Arab Spring is at a dead end. Any new push by the international...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels have begun a major operation in the Aleppo region, aiming to strike at security compounds and bases around Syria's largest city, activists said Friday. It would be evidence that weeks of intense bombardments by the Syrian military,...
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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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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
The grisly reports of the latest Syrian mass atrocity in Darayya reflect the all too horrific Syrian depravity pattern: First, laying siege to the city denying its inhabitants food, water, electricity, medical assistance and communications of any...
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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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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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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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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Russia insists that terrorist acts in Syria should be investigated with UN and Arab League representatives, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The ministry referred in particular to the mass killing of civilians in the Damascus suburb of Daraya,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi agrees that there can be no political solution for Syria unless President Bashar al-Assad leaves power, the French presidency said Wednesday. In a statement issued following a telephone conversation between Morsi and...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 9 months ago
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an excerpt from a television interview broadcast Wednesday that his government's battle against opposition forces would need "time" and had not yet been resolved, in what appeared to be a sober assessment of the...
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Newyork Times
| 9 months ago
Six weeks after the Iraq invasion, Mr. Annan wrote, Mr. Powell visited his 38th-floor office at the United Nations to privately exult with him over news that American forces believed they had found mobile laboratories in Iraq that the administration...
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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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BBC
| 9 months ago
As violence spreads to almost every corner of Syria, there is no longer any doubt that the country is engulfed in all-out war. In August alone, more than 3,000 Syrians were reported killed...Another indicator that the Syrian conflict has spiralled...
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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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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
An opposition fighter carries the body of his brother and comrade who was killed during conflict in the Saif al-Dawla neighbourhood amid heavy street fighting between opposition and government forces yesterday. (Inset) A woman and her baby are seen...
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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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United Press International
| 9 months ago
The Syrian president said Wednesday the situation in his country was improving as a member of an exiled opposition council resigned because of internal rows. French President Francois Hollande said this week that Paris would recognize a provisional...
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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
Turkish government officials, alarmed by a surge in refugees from Syria, have told Syrian activists in Reyhanli and other cities in southern Turkey that their movement and activities will be restricted, an apparent change in policy toward the...
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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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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Russia on Wednesday called for an impartial investigation into the latest "barbaric" violence near Syria's capital Damascus, where hundreds of deaths have been reported since the weekend. "We insist on a meticulous and impartial investigation into...
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News 24
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels claimed on Wednesday they had destroyed five helicopters at a military airport between the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib, after a watchdog reported fierce clashes there. Abu Mossab, a rebel who participated in the attack, said via...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
A dozen people were killed and at least 48 were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb struck what opposition activists conceded was a funeral procession for supporters of President Bashar al-Assad. State television said the bomb was hidden in a taxi...
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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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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
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...
