United Press International
Scores of people were reported killed Friday on the first day of an Eid al-Ahda truce in Syria, in violence that included a deadly car bombing in Damascus. Abu Osama al-Midani, an opponent of President Bashar Assad, told CNN the bomb attack killed at...
DAWN
Outbursts of fighting threatened to undermine a fragile ceasefire that took effect in Syria on Friday after President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the main rebel force agreed to down arms for a four-day Eidul Azha holiday. But the violence was still...
Zee News
At least five people were killed and 32 injured in a car bomb blast near the Syrian capital Friday, Xinhua reported...The blast came as the ceasefire brokered by the UN-Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, supposedly went into...
Boston.com
Two deadly car bombs and sporadic fighting marred a shaky holiday truce Friday in Syria, although thousands of protesters used the brief respite in the civil war to pour into the streets and demand President Bashar Assad's ouster. Chants of Syria...
War In Context
Assad's operatives have tried repeatedly in recent months to buy up the precursor chemicals for deadly nerve agents like sarin, even as his country plunges further and further into a civil war. The U.S. and its allies have been able to block many of...
War In Context
Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, to coincide with this weekend's Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, is likely an attempt to lay down a marker for a future mechanism to end a war that neither side is currently ready to stop. The veteran Algerian diplomat could...