Daily News & Analysis
Syrian troops fought on the corpse-strewn streets of Damascus and at far-flung border posts on Friday to reverse gains by rebels, who have advanced relentlessly in the 48 hours since much of President Bashar al-Assad's entourage was assassinated. The...
Daily News & Analysis
The opposition Free Syrian Army is creating a unit of men trained to secure Syria's chemical weapons sites, said a former general in the country's chemical and biological weapons administration. "We have a group just to deal with chemical weapons.
NOW Lebanon
Unprecedented clashes between troops and rebels raged into a second day in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Saturday, forcing residents to flee some neighborhoods, activists said. In Damascus, where troops were engaged in a major counter-offensive to...
Novinite
The situation in Syria is the tensest since unrest against the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad started early 2011, with heavy fighting now going on in capital Damascus. At the same time, Wednesday a suicide bombing in the Bulgarian city of Burgas...
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Reuters From scenes of observing the holy month of Ramzan across the world to a passing-out parade in J&K, here are the best pictures of July 20. A Syrian girl leans over a suitcase on the Lebanese-Syrian border town of al-Masnaa July 20, 2012.
Jerusalem Post
But the aerial and ground bombardment on Damascus and its suburbs shows that it has not lost the striking force and that it is re-grouping," opposition activist Moaz al-Jahhar said by telephone from Damascus. The 16-month conflict has been...