Bana is tragic symbol of thousands of young lives torn apart by Syria’s war By AFP – Dec 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian Bana Al Abed, who with the help of her mother had been posting heart-rending tweets in English on life in the besieged eastern districts of Syria’s […]
By AFP – Dec 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian pro-government troops walk on a street in Aleppo’s eastern Karm Al Jabal neighbourhood as they advance towards Al Shaar neighbourhood on Monday during their offensive to retake Syria’s second city (AFP photo) ALEPPO — Russia said Monday it would […]
Source: Time By Bassem Mroue / AP The rebels have been retreating from eastern Aleppo for more than a week, and government forces are likely to prevail (ALEPPO, Syria) — Amina […]
Source: BBC A seven-year-old girl whose tweets from besieged eastern Aleppo drew worldwide attention has disappeared from the social network amid an army offensive. Tweeting in English with the help […]
Bana Alabed’s profile disappeared from the service on Sunday. 12/05/2016 Lee Moran Trends Editor, The Huffington Post A seven-year-old Syrian girl’s Twitter account has mysteriously shut down. Bana Alabed had gained more than 100,000 followers since the @AlabedBana profile she shares with her mother Fatemah began tweeting their experiences of living […]
By Rula Samain – Dec 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Peacemaking should be at the heart of the mindset working to counter the spread of violence in the Middle East and the world, participants said at a conference that concluded on Thursday. Unless peace becomes a mindset and […]
If the Aleppo room was still in Aleppo, and not a museum in Berlin, it might well have been destroyed, burned in the indulgence of fire which consumed much of the old city two years ago when even the great mosque and minaret of the Omayad crashed to the ground […]
Damascus says it will not allow Turkish interference By AFP – Nov 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian man cries near a dead body of a girl after warplanes reportedly belonging to the Assad regime forces carried out air strikes over residential areas at the Jub Al Quba neighbourhood […]
By Marcela Aguila Rubín NOV 30, 2016 -www.swissinfo.ch Thousands of people march for justice in Guadalajara, Mexico, in September 2015. They are holding pictures of 43 missing students who were kidnapped by police a year earlier (Reuters) Secret mass graves in Mexico, daily bombings and a mounting death toll in […]
Source: BBC By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News The director of the CIA has warned US President-elect Donald Trump that ending the Iran nuclear deal would be “disastrous” and “the height of folly”. In a BBC interview, John Brennan also advised the new president to be wary of Russia’s […]
Source: BBC The US has admitted carrying out an attack in eastern Syria that killed dozens of Syrian forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS). The US-led coalition said the “mistake” on 17 September was intended to target IS positions. Coalition aircraft from the UK, US, Denmark and Australia were involved […]
Regime gains prompt exodus of thousands of desperate civilians By AFP – Nov 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo, on September 11 […]
Exclusive: Speaking for the first time as the bombardment of Aleppo continues, General Jamil Hassan – a man facing sanctions from both the US and EU – says he’s ‘astounded the US and UN make all this effort for this very small district’ Robert Fisk Syria @indyvoices Aleppo’s historic citadel, controlled by […]
Source: Aljazeera Suspected hate crimes targeting Muslims carried out as anti-Islam rhetoric swells in the US following Paris attacks. By Patrick Strickland More than 4.2 million Syrians have fled their country as the civil war continues [Santi Palacios/AP] Several mosques have been vandalised and a number of suspected hate crimes targeting […]
Source: Aljazeera Assad forces capture Jabal Badro and intensify air raids in and around the city, killing 15 civilians in Anjara village. The Syrian military has announced it had taken control of a second residential district of the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo city in two days, as government air […]
Nov 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL At a press conference held on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Peru last week, US President Barack Obama showed gloom and doom about the Syrian situation and gave the distinct impression that Washington was and is helpless about doing […]
Source: ABC News By J.J. GALLAGHER The number of Syrians living under siege has doubled in just the past six months and now totals nearly one million, the United Nations‘ humanitarian chief said on Monday. Stephen O’Brien, the U.N.’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the United Nations Security Council that […]
Reuters International NOV 22, 2016 By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Nicola Benyahia’s teenage son slipped away one day to join the Islamic State in Syria, the frantic mother anguished over his disappearance for months while keeping it secret from her friends and most of […]
COMMENTARY (The Hill) November 14, 2016 What the Battles of Mosul and Aleppo Tell Us About Their Countries’ Futures A Peshmerga soldier talks with a boy who is fleeing the fighting between Islamic State and the Iraqi army in Mosul, Iraq, November 14, 2016 Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters by Brian […]
Source: Time By Jared Malsin There are currently no functioning hospitals in the rebel-held section of the Syrian city of Aleppo following days of heavy shelling and airstrikes by Syrian government and Russian warplanes, medical officials say. Airstrikes took out the last remaining hospital on Friday, according to the Health Directorate […]