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Times of India
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels said they had captured an air defence base with a cache of missiles outside Damascus, a rare advance on the city after a series of opposition setbacks in the capital. Rebel forces overran the base in the Eastern Gouta area, a few miles...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Lakhdar Brahimi (R), U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria and former Algerian minister of foreign affairs, leaves after attending the funeral ceremony of former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid at the presidential place in Algiers October 7,...
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Indian Express
| 7 months ago
Hillary Clinton put special focus on Asia as top US diplomat' '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Agencies : Washington, Fri Oct 12 2012, 16:34 hrs Hillary Clinton, as the top US diplomat, has expanded the definition of what makes...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday a Syrian passenger plane forced to land in Ankara was carrying Russian-made munitions destined for Syria's armed forces, ratcheting up tension with his country's war-torn neighbor. Damascus said...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: Time is running out in Jordan report Time is running out for a deal between King Abdullah and Jordan's political parties, as elections early next year loom, an article in the Economist magazine...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled a trip to Turkey after Ankara alleged a passenger jet originating in Moscow carried military equipment and ammunition. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied the cancellation of a trip set for...
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring, taking thousands of lives over the past 18 months. After dictatorships fell in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, Syrian President Bashar Assad's government resorted to a...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Syria has accused Turkey of lying over its claim that a Syria-bound plane forced to land in Ankara was carrying Russian-made defence equipment. Syria's foreign ministry challenged Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who made the claim, to show publicly...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
Umit Bektas Prime Minister Recep Tayep Erdogan said in a speech this week that Turkey was not interested in war but we're not far from it either. This rather confused phrase perfectly sums up the dilemmas in which Turkey's policy toward Syria and the...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Jordan (AP) From the edge of a steep mountain overlooking a desert compound built into an old rock quarry, machine gunfire echoes just outside hangars where U.S. special operations forces are training Jordanian commandos. The Americans, who arrived...
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The Economist
| 7 months ago
Greater efforts are being made to build a rebel front and to unify local commands in particular cities and provinces. Last month, for instance, the Aleppo Military Council said it had brought a variety of fighting groups in the city under its control.
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BBC
| 7 months ago
John McCain calls for greater intervention 11 October 2012 Last updated at 12:46 ET US Senator John McCain has said the US should intervene in Syria to help create safe zones and get arms and support to anti-Assad rebels. On Wednesday, the US...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
A Syrian-bound plane intercepted by Turkey was carrying Russian-made defence equipment destined for Syria's defence ministry, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. "Passenger aircraft cannot carry ammunition and defence equipment," Mr...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
Tayyip Erdogan has said a Syrian passenger plane from Moscow which was forced to land in Ankara was carrying Russian-made munitions. It's believed the arms were destined for Syria's defence ministry. The Airbus A320, which had 37 passengers on board,...
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The independent
| 7 months ago
Moscow accused Ankara of endangering Russian lives today after Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Damascus said...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Moscow has accused Turkey of putting the lives of Russian passengers in danger by using its military to force a Syria-bound plane to land in Ankara. The Syrian Air plane, from Moscow, was intercepted and searched on Wednesday on suspicion it was...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 7 months ago
Rejecting Turkish regime, not its people In the wake of growing tensions between Syria and Turkey, Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that while his country rejects the Turkish government it has nothing against the Turkish people. "Syria has...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
47 Moscow has accused Ankara of endangering Russian lives after Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Turkey's Chief of General Staff Necdet Ozel (C) arrives at Oncupinar border outpost on the Turkish-Syrian border in Kilis province October 9, 2012 Turkish Military/Handout/Reuters video Smoke rises after a mortar bomb fired from Syria landed in...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi waded back into the Syrian fray on Thursday, even as rebels and regime troops fought pitched battles for control of key northern towns leaving dozens dead. The envoy, who has previously held out little prospect...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
The announcement follows recent news that President Bashar al-Assad's forces moved some of the weapons for security reasons. Reports have emerged that rebels are focusing their efforts on capturing some of the storage sites. "We continue to be...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 7 months ago
Turkey sharply escalated its confrontation with Syria on Wednesday, forcing a Syrian passenger plane to land in Ankara on suspicion of carrying military cargo, ordering Turkish civilian airplanes to avoid Syrias airspace and warning of increasingly...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
The Russian side is insisting on an explanation of the reasons for such actions by the Turkish authorities," the statement said. It said that "the lives and safety of the passengers were placed under threat" by the incident. The plane was detained...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
Turkey scrambled fighter planes to force a Syrian passenger jet to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. The interception of the Syrian Air plane came hours...
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The Hindu
| 7 months ago
Istanbul/Beirut, October 11, 2012 AP People gather atop the aircraft steps at a Syrian passenger plane that was forced by Turkish jets to land at Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Turkey confiscated what it described as objectionable...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Turkish fighters jets forced down a Syrian passenger plane on Wednesday, following accusations that it was carrying weapons to the Assad regime from Russia. Turkish authorities gave few details but local television said the plane was on a flight from...
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Daily Nation
| 7 months ago
Turkey seized "objectionable cargo" aboard a Syrian passenger plane which it intercepted en route from Moscow to Damascus on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. "There is illegal cargo on the plane that should have been reported"...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Turkey's Chief of General Staff Necdet Ozel (C) arrives at Oncupinar border outpost on the Turkish-Syrian border in Kilis province October 9, 2012 Turkish Military/Handout/Reuters video Smoke rises after a mortar bomb fired from Syria landed in...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
Turkey has seized "illegal cargo" from a Syrian passenger plane after fighter jets forced it to land. Two military planes escorted the Damascus-bound Airbus A-320, carrying around 30 passengers, into the airport in Ankara. The plane, which was en...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 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
| 7 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
| 7 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
| 7 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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The Guardian
| 7 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
| 7 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
| 7 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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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld coined the phrase "unknown unknowns," a snappier way to describe "unintended consequences." Both refer to events that are unanticipated, unexpected and unpredictable. Beyond the arming of the mujahedin with...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
The apparent suicide car blasts in the government controlled district came within minutes of each other and killed at least 40 people. Aleppo is Syria's largest city and is essentially split in half with the rebels controlling the eastern part and...
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SF Gate
| 7 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
| 7 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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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Associated Press The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to help build a headquarters in Jordan and bolster that country's military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria, Defense...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 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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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows smoke billowing from buildings in Syria's besieged central city of Homs following shelling during fighting between government and opposition forces, on October 6, 2012.
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Turkey's top military commander has warned Syria that it will respond with greater force if it continues its cross-border shelling. Five Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian mortar fire last week, prompting Turkey to fire into Syria for the first...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 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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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
US soldiers prepare their gear during the military exercise near the Jordan. (AFP Photo) A covert task force was sent to Jordan in case Syria loses control of its chemical weapons stockpiles, US officials said. The team will be stationed at a base 35...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
A militant Islamist group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an enormous double explosion at an intelligence base in Damascus. The attack, the latest in a series of bomb blasts at strategic locations in the Syrian capital, sent out a fireball...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Kirk-Cuomo/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, left, meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan in August. The New York Times The task force, which has been led by a senior American officer, is based at a Jordanian...
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Scoop
| 7 months ago
I have conveyed my strong message to the Syrian Government that they should immediately declare a unilateral ceasefire, he told a news conference in Paris, after holding talks with French President Francois Hollande on the 19-month uprising against...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 7 months ago
22 10/09/2012 'We expected a greater Turkish response than this, but you know, every country has its own special affairs.' Taken alone, the remarks by Bashir Hajjo, introduced by BBC Arabic TV last Thursday as the spokesperson of the Tawhid Brigade,...
