Arizona Daily Sun
The Associated Press The Associated Press 1 hour ago Associated Press U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is welcoming the announcements of a temporary cease-fire in Syria for this weekend's Muslim holiday and is urging all countries and groups...
The Guardian
Beirut and Syrian rebel fighters pause as they make further territorial gains inside Aleppo. Photograph: Fabio Bucciarelli/AFP/Getty Images After more than two months of near stalemate, rebel groups have advanced into three regime-held areas of...
Daily News & Analysis
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed on Thursday a planned ceasefire in Syria for the Eid al-Adha holiday, saying it was important that Syrian government troops as well as the armed opposition groups adhere to the truce. Syria's army command...
The New York Times
Lebanon The Syrian Army announced on Thursday that it would cease military operations from Friday to Monday to mark the most important Muslim holiday of the year. The truce, likely to be severely tested on many fronts given the fractured nature of...
Boston.com
Syria (AP) Rebel forces fired at Syrian troops in a battered neighborhood of the nation's largest city Thursday, crouching behind walls and firing from the corners of buildings in urban warfare. Free Syrian Army units and the Liwa Al Tawhid group...
The Economist
East of Aleppo, far from the main arterial roads used by the regime to resupply its forces, Raqqa province may appear to have little strategic importance. But it is crucial to the regime's survival, for it is part of the Jazeera region stretching...