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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
In a significant escalation in the tensions between the two countries, Turkey scrambled fighter jets to escort the passenger jet into the Ankara airport. Turkish authorities had received information that it was carrying "non-civilian" cargo which had...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Turkey intercepted Wednesday a Syrian passenger plane suspected of transporting banned cargo from Moscow to Damascus as the U.S. announced it had military planners in Jordan to prepare for any chemical weapons threat. Meanwhile, on the ground in...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Artillery exchanges across the border between Turkey and Syria have continued for six days, triggered by the deaths of five Turkish civilians when a mortar shell landed in a frontier village on October 3. The following day, the Prime Minister, Recep...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
There is information that the plane had cargo on board that does not meet the requirements of civil aviation, he said in the interview in Athens, which he is visiting. Russia, one of Syria's staunchest international allies, has in the past...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Turkey (AP) Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it might be carrying weapons or other military equipment, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
State-run TRT television said an Airbus A320 coming from Moscow was intercepted by F16 jets as it entered Turkish airspace and escorted to the capital's Esenboga Airport. The station said authorities grounded the plane on suspicion that it was...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Reuters in Ankara Turkey received intelligence that a Syrian passenger plane which it has forced to land in Ankara was carrying "non-civilian cargo", foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu says. Speaking live on Turkish television, Davutoglu said Turkey...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Villagers helped the families by ferrying them in small metal boats as they fled the violence in the Syrian border town of Azmarin where several mortar shells landed early on Wednesday. As heavy machine gun fire could be heard from the Turkish side,...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
The shelling across the Turkish-Syrian border, now entering its seventh day, gives further testimony, as if any were needed, that Turkey's Syria policies have failed and that the civil war in Syria is also a regional, sectarian war, with no end in...
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Midland Park Suburban News
| 8 months ago
Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring. The protests started peacefully but prompted a brutal crackdown by President Bashar Assad's government. The fighting has escalated into a civil war that has killed more than...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Facebook page of President Bashar Assad of Syria, it shows the first lady Asma, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, accompanying her daughter and three sons on their first day back at school. Two of the boys wear camouflage shorts with khaki t-shirts and...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Necdet Ozel was inspecting troops who have been put on alert along the 910-kilometer (566-mile) border with Syria after a week of cross-border artillery and mortar exchanges escalated tensions between the neighbors, sparking fears of a wider regional...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has not had any real ally, among the superpowers or in the region, other than Syria. The alliance between Iran and Syria has lasted more than thirty years, the longest alliance between any two states in the region...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
The private NTV television network reported the comments of armed forces chief of staff General Necdet Ozel, amid fears of a cross-border escalation of Syria's civil war. The military chief was inspecting troops on a tour of the heavily fortified...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Turkey's military will respond with greater force if shelling from Syria continues to hit its territory, its chief of staff said on Wednesday, as clashes between the Syrian army and rebels intensified along the border. Several mortar bombs landed...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Turkey warned Syria again on Tuesday that it would not hesitate to retaliate for any strike on its soil as the country's top military commander visited troops stationed at the reinforced border. "It has become inevitable for our armed forces to...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Smoke rises after a mortar bomb fired from Syria landed in Turkish soil on the Turkish-Syrian border in southern Hatay province Reuters video A damaged church is seen in the old city of Homs September 30, 2012. Picture taken September 30, 2012 Shaam...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
A former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad's media office who defected to Turkey says Assad and his family are preparing to escape to Russia. Abdullah al-Omar a former staff member of Assad's media office told al-Jazeera he was privy to many of...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the "worst-case scenarios" were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army fired back for a sixth day after a shell from Syria flew over the border.
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Turkey's top military commander General Necdet Ozel on Tuesday inspected troops in the southeastern Hatay province near the Syrian border, a day after a Syrian shell landed in a nearby town, local media reported. Ozel inspected military units in the...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Agencies Damaged buildings are seen in the Khaldieh neighborhood of Homs. Turkish President Abdullah Gul warned Monday that worst-case scenarios were playing out in Syria and vowed Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Ankara's Bilkent University . "The Turkish people don't want a war and there are no vital national interests at stake to warrant a war...The Syrian conflict has taken a prominent role in the U.S. presidential election at a time when the U.S. and its...
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GMA News
| 8 months ago
Syrian forces advanced into the rebel-held Khalidiya district in the central city of Homs on Monday for the first time in months, rebels in the neighborhood said. Government forces fighting rebels seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad have...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Turkish President Abdullah Gul begged the international community to do more to end Syria's conflict to avoid 'more bloodshed and before Syria self-destructs more than it already has' Turkey's president described its growing conflict with Syria as '...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
Turkey, once an ally of President Bashar Assad but now a key supporter of the rebels fighting to topple him. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had warned on Saturday that Ankara would respond forcefully to each errant Syrian shell that lands...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
A Turkish army armoured personnel carrier is dug in on the border with Syria near Akcakale on October 7, 2012 (AFP Photo) Turkey has returned fire after mortar from Syria landed in Turkey's Hatay province, Reuters reports. It's the sixth day of...
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Spiked
| 8 months ago
Turkey engaged in cross-border fire with Syrian forces in retaliation for what appeared to be wayward Syrian army shells which killed five in the Turkish border town of Akcakale...The UN Security Council president, Gert Rosenthal, condemned in the...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
The leader of Syria's main opposition group said Monday that he would not oppose a role for members of President Bashar Assad's ruling Baath party in the country's political future as long as they did not participate in killings during the uprising.
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
The leader of Syria's main opposition group says members of President Bashar Assad's ruling Baath party can play a role in Syria's political future as long as they did not participate in killings during the country's uprising and civil war.
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey's border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara's warning that it will respond with force to any violence spilling over into its territory.
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Turkish residents near Syria were evacuated Monday and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country must be prepared as if it will fight a war. Police ordered residents near the Turkish-Syrian border fence to move out after Syrian mortar fire...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Turkey and Syria fired artillery and mortars across their volatile border for a fifth consecutive day Sunday in one of the most serious and prolonged flare-ups of violence along the frontier. Turkey, once an ally of President Bashar Assad but now a...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Three Tunisian jihadists have been arrested by the Syrian army, Xinhua reported. According to Shems FM, the three belong to a group of foreign fighters, dubbed "Jibhat Nosrat El Shem", who are supporting the rebel Free Syrian Army against the forces...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Agencies Forces loyal to Assad patrol at Hanano barracks in Aleppo after clashes between FSA fighters and regime forces. Aleppo was shaken Sunday by the heaviest fighting of an almost three-month offensive against rebels in Syria's second city,...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Daily Star Sharaa, center, welcomes an Iranian delegation to Damascus in August. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has floated Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa as a possible leader of a future Syrian transition government to replace...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Middle East editor Turkey has given its backing to Farouq al-Sharaa as a possible replacement for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad who was described as being in a self-confident and combative mood during a meeting with Iran's foreign minister Ali...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
57 Syrian troops on Sunday pressed their offensive to retake rebel-held areas in Homs [AFP] Turkey's military has fired numerous artillery rounds into Syria in immediate retaliation after a shell fired from Syria landed in the Turkish border town of...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Turkey (AP) Turkey's military on Sunday fired artillery on targets inside Syria for a fifth day consecutive day, immediately responding to a Syrian mortar that landed on Turkish soil. The exchange kept tensions along the volatile border running high...
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Jerusalem Post
| 8 months ago
Syrian shell lands in Akcakale, where 5 were killed previously; Turkey responds immediately with artillery fire on Tel Abyad. Turkey's military fired an artillery round into Syria on Sunday in immediate retaliation after a shell fired from Syria...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
Turkey Turkish artillery fired toward Syria for a fifth day in a row on Sunday, minutes after a Syrian shell landed on Turkish territory. An Associated Press video journalist witnessed the shell landing some 200 meters (200 yards) inside Turkey, near...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The number of civilian deaths in Syria's civil war in September was 4,631, bringing the death toll to 30,541 since the war began 18 months ago, activists said. Of those killed in September, 333 were children, 391 were women and 78 succumbed to...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Turkish troops take their position at the Akcakale border gate in southern Sanliurfa province October 7, 2012, as a Syrian Independence flag waves at Syria's Tel Abyad border crossing in the background. Turkey: Syrian rebels have seized a government...
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Jerusalem Post
| 8 months ago
AFP reports Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is "inclined to accept Shara" as future leader of Syrian administration. Raheb Homavandi Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Shara "is a man of reason" who could replace President Bashar Assad, AFP...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A Syrian rebel runs across a heavily damaged street to dodge sniper fire during clashes with government forces in the Saif al-Dawla district of the northern city of Aleppo on October 6, 2012. Rebels cemented their control of Syria's northern frontier...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Syrian army tanks are seen in the Suleiman al-Halabi neighborhood after clashes between Free Syrian Army fighters and regime forces, in Aleppo city October 5, 2012. Qatar, a major supporter of Syrian rebels, urged them on Sunday not to kill Iranians...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 8 months ago
Turkey fired artillery into Syria for a fourth consecutive day on Saturday after another Syrian shell landed on the Turkish side of the increasingly tense border. The exchanges and Turkeys recent warnings to Syria that it would defend itself have...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara "is a man of reason" who could replace President Bashar al-Assad as the head of a transition administration to stop Syria's civil war, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu "Faruq al-Shara is a man...
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Denver Post
| 8 months ago
Arabia For months, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been funneling money and small arms to Syria's rebels but have refused to provide heavier weapons, such as shoulder-fired missiles, that could allow opposition fighters to bring down government aircraft,...
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The Herald Times
| 8 months ago
US troops, 2 Afghan policemen killed Insurgents on Saturday killed two American troops in eastern Afghanistan, an area that has seen heavy fighting in recent months, the U.S. military said. No other information about the deaths was disclosed, pending...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Syria's northern border, as Turkey hit back against what it said was new mortar fire from inside Syria. Damascus, for its part, said four Turks were among a convoy of "terrorists" killed in the heart of Aleppo, just hours after UN condemnation of...
