Seattle Post Intelligencer
Syria decided to ban Turkish Airlines flights from Syrian airspace...The decision came three days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to Damascus and seized what it said was military equipment on board. Tensions...
SF Gate
The U.S. and regional allies are closely monitoring Syria's chemical weapons caught in the midst of a raging civil war but options for securing the toxic agents stuffed into shells, bombs and missiles are fraught with risk. President Bashar Assad 's...
Kuwait Times
Violence in Syria has killed at least 33,082 people, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said yesterday. Some 1,000 people have been killed in the past five days alone, the Britain-based watchdog said. ...
Israel National News
08 Reported News Brief 10/13/2012, Tishrei 27, 5773 Turkey's PM Blasts UN Security Council for Inaction Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan harshly criticized the UN Securit Council for failing to put an end to the bloody conflict in Syria. "If...
International Business Times
A lion at the Damascus Zoo Children play in spite of their wounds, zookeepers look after their charges despite the chaos and the lions continue to thrive. For the past 40 years, Syrians have been reluctant to admit that lions are animals, or...
Al Jazeera
19 Syrian opposition fighters have said they have captured more than 250 members of the government's armed forces in the province of Idlib. The announcement on Saturday was accompanied by amateur video showing what the rebels claim are 256 captured...