Chidanand RajghattaChidanand Rajghatta, TNN THE TIMES OF INDIA WASHINGTON: Cornered in a boat after gun battles with police had left him injured and bloodied, the teenage brother of a radicalized Chechen who was killed in firefight with Boston police was captured alive on Friday. The finale, which ended the four-day […]
By Phil Stewart REUTERS WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:27pm EDT (Reuters) – The United States is dispatching Army planners to Jordan as neighboring Syria’s conflict worsens, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday, but he signaled deep misgivings about direct American military intervention in the Syrian civil […]
AFP | Apr 18, 2013 JORDAN TIMES DAMASCUS – President Bashar Assad on Wednesday threatened the crisis in Syria could spill over into Jordan, in an hour-long interview with official Al-Ikhbariya channel. “The fire will not stop at our borders; all the world knows Jordan is just as exposed (to […]
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has urged caution over international calls to arm Syrian rebels and reserved the right for the Jewish state to block the supply of weapons that could be turned against it. Speaking to the BBC, the Israeli prime minister said if advanced arms fell into the hands of […]
By: Bruce Riedel for Al-Monitor Posted on April 8. As the Syrian civil war gets ever more violent and destructive, there is a big beneficiary: al-Qaeda and its franchise in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra — which is now the fastest-growing al-Qaeda front in the world, attracting fighters from across the Islamic […]
by Taylor Luck | Apr 15, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Authorities have seized several Jihadi Salafists along the Kingdom’s shared border with Syria, a local security source said on Monday. Border patrols seized a group of eight Jordanians allegedly attempting to cross into Syria late Saturday to join […]
JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A specially equipped German military aircraft picked up more than 30 severely injured Syrian refugees from Amman on Monday to fly them to Germany for treatment, […]
The Associated Press, Lebanese-Syrian border – AL ARABIYA Hezbollah-backed fighters are taking an ever more active role in the ongoing Syrian conflict along the border with Lebanon. They claim their […]
by Abeer Numan | Apr 15, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — As the Syrian crisis enters its third year, Jordan and other refugee-hosting countries must come up with “innovative solutions” to reduce the exodus of Syrian refugees, said Davide Terzi, Jordan’s Chief of Mission of the International Organisation for […]
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Damascus under siege? Certainly. But at war? I’m not so sure. The shells swish high over the city, from Mount Qasioun to Deraya, soaring far over the 18th-century Azem Palace and the mosque built on air, the glorious Umayyad with its fragile 8th-century mosaics, last resting place of Saladin, the […]
A man was stopped at a government checkpoint on the highway north of Deraa and his mobile phone taken. The soldier found an SMS message which said: “I am in the hospital. The shooting has started.” Assuming that the man was a rebel signalling his whereabouts to his comrades, the […]
Story Summary In Homs, Syrian forces battled rebels near the border with Lebanon as part of a counteroffensive aimed at regaining control of territory. Meanwhile, fighting between rebels and opposition forces also broke out in the eastern city of Qamishli on the Turkish border, ending a de facto truce in […]
April 12, 2013 – 19:24 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that attempts to “delegitimise” the Syrian leadership would have disastrous consequences, and hit out against those trying to […]
Reuters | Apr 09, 2013 | 23:15 Updated: Apr 09, 2013 | 23:15 JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — Iraq’s Al Qaeda wing has united with a kindred Syrian group in the frontline of a struggle to oust President Bashar Assad, sharpening a dilemma for nations that back the revolt, but fear […]
AFP JORDAN TIMES ALEPPO, Syria — “Goal! Goal!” children scream, kicking a football around like children everywhere. But in war-ravaged Aleppo, their playground is a strip of no-man’s land near […]
AFP | Apr 06, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES ALEPPO, Syria — A newborn baby abandoned on the street in the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo has been named “Gift from God” by the family who adopted her even at the cost of an extra mouth to feed. In a city […]
by Taylor Luck | Apr 06, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN/MAFRAQ — A Jordanian university student was killed while fighting alongside Syrian rebel forces on Friday, Islamist and Syrian sources said Saturday. According to Mousa Abdullat, representative of the Jordanian Salafist movement, 22-year-old University of Jordan student Walid Othman was […]
Source: The Local “According to our information Syria has become the new target for Jihadists from Germany,” the president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, told the paper. In 2013 Syria will become “a new centre” for such trips, he said. Security officials estimated […]
AFP | Apr 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES LONDON — As many as 600 Europeans have joined the rebels fighting government forces in Syria, according to a British study. Jihadists from 14 European countries including France, Germany, Britain and the Netherlands are among those to enter the conflict, according to […]