Source: Aljazeera By Mohsin Ali More than 65,000 have vanished in Syria since 2011, according to The Syrian Network for Human Rights. They are victims of Forced (or Enforced) Disappearance – when a person is abducted, arrested or detained by the state or agents acting for the state, who then deny […]
Source: BBC A suicide bombing which killed 51 people in the Turkish city of Gaziantep was carried out by a 12 to 14-year-old, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Mr Erdogan […]
Source: BBC Turkey says it will take a more active role in efforts to end the war in Syria and accepts President Bashar al-Assad as an interim but not long-term […]
Source: TOI The boy is Omran Daqneesh+ . He was being taken to hospital in an ambulance, after being pulled out from under the rubble of a building after terror airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria, last week. The terror strikes occurred in the rebel-held area of the Qaterji neighbourhood which has […]
Source: BBC By Andrew Mitchell Andrew Mitchell is a Conservative member of parliament and a former International Development Secretary of the U.K. The Syrian city will stand forever as a symbol of international shame and failure Members of the United Nations Security Council should go to bed tonight with the picture […]
Source: TOI BEIRUT: Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo. The image of the stunned and weary looking boy, sitting in an orange chair inside an ambulance covered in dust and with blood […]
Source: BBC Residents in the northern Syrian city of Manbij have been celebrating new freedoms after being liberated from the rule of so-called Islamic State. They have poured into the streets enjoying basic rights they had been denied for two years, including shaving off their beards and smoking. US-backed Kurdish […]
Aug 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES The Golan Heights give reason to the region to worry. The deteriorating situation there, whereby 1,000 jihadists affiliating with Daesh chose Golan as their base, poses a tangible threat that requires prompt action. And with another 1,500 jihadists calling themselves Jabhat Al Nusra — which […]
Source: PBS News BY DANIEL MORITZ-RABSON Danish warplanes dropped bombs on the Islamic State in Syria for the first time, the country’s military said Friday. At some point “in the […]
The Syrian Democratic Forces have been fighting towards Manbij for two months Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Rebel forces backed by the US-led coalition are reported to be in “almost complete control” of a Syrian city after driving Isismilitants out of their former stronghold. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance has been […]
There are no ‘good guys’ among the Syrian warlords yet, despite all the evidence, we want to find them. It’s time to stop lying to the people of the Middle East […]
Jul 24, 2016 (IraqiNews.com) Baghdad- A well placed source in the Ministry of Interior has informed that security forces in Syria on Sunday arrested ISIS members who were disguised as […]
By Laila Azzeh – Aug 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees carry water at the Azraq camp, some 100km east of Amman and 20km west of the town of Azraq in Zarqa Governorate, recently (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN — More than half of the registered Syrian refugees […]
Source: Time By Jared Malsin The journey of Rami Anis from war-struck Aleppo to Rio de Janeiro In October of 2011, the popular uprising in Syria was turning from protest to […]
Source: Asia Times. BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military helicopter was shot down in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on Monday killing all five people on board, in the biggest officially acknowledged loss of life for Russian forces since they started operations in Syria. Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian […]
28.05.2015 Deutschland, Islam, Terrorism/War, WorldJulia DR. JUERGEN TODENHOEFER: Dear friends, according to the US secret service, DIA, the Obama administration has known as early as August 2012 that Al Qaeda /AQI, IS, ISIS) and other extremists were heading the Syrian rebellion. As a result, the “possibility that a Salafist principality […]
Source: BBC Dozens of families have left besieged eastern areas of the city of Aleppo along a humanitarian corridor, Syrian state media says. The civilians boarded buses and were taken […]
| Published — Saturday 30 July 2016 BEIRUT: Daesh has executed at least 24 civilians after seizing a village in northern Syria from a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, a monitor said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh executed 24 civilians “in the last 24 hours” after taking […]
Turn it into a respectable army of ‘moderates’, give it a spanking new name, and then the Americans and Russians will stop bombing the daylights out of it and Qatar’s loyal militia will destroy the Assad regime and… Well, if that happened, Qatar would control the future of Syria Robert […]
By AFP – Jul 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A man watches as debris is removed during a search for survivors at a damaged site after two bomb blasts claimed by the Daesh terror group hit the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli near the Turkish border, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) […]