By Reuters – Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this February11, file photo, school boys play in a street in Aleppo, Syria. After four years of grinding battles, Aleppo divided residents face a common fear as the prospect of a total siege looms. Syria’s largest city used to be […]
GENEVA | BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY Bones, suspected to belong to members of Iraq’s Yazidi community, are seen in a mass grave on the outskirts of the town of Sinjar, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/ARI JALAL/FILES Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious […]
ERBIL, IRAQ | BY MAHER CHMAYTELLI AND ISABEL COLES Iraqi soldiers gather to go battle against Islamic State militants south of Mosul , Iraq, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/STRINGER Once Islamic […]
Your home may be in flames, your family enslaved, your torturers itching to pull out your fingernails – but above all you’ve got to ignore the ciggy packet in your pocket Robert Fisk @indyvoices 41 Syrians gathering at the scene of a double bomb attack outside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine AFP […]
Source: Huffington Post By Jennifer R. Breedon Human Rights Analyst & Foreign Policy Expert Focused on Religious Extremist Ideology & International Law “We pray for the souls of the Islamic State militants that killed our families. We know they are motivated by evil and pray they can be freed.” I will […]
Each false atrocity bleeds into the body of evidence of other, real crimes, contaminating the truth for decades to come Robert Fisk in Beirut @indyvoices We all know the problem. […]
Jun 08,2016 – MICHAEL JANSEN Poised for weeks on the boundary between Hama and Raqqa provinces, Syrian army troops bolstered by the Homs-based pro-government Falcons of the Desert militia, finally entered Raqqa to do battle with Daesh. Given air cover from Russian warplanes, the ground forces advanced on the town […]
Source: ABC News In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone […]
Source: Aljazeera By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours Toronto, Canada – Tareq Hadhad knows what it means to lose everything in an instant. That’s why the 24-year-old Syrian refugee and his family did not hesitate […]
Source: BBC The besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya has received its first aid convoy since November 2012, according to the Red Cross. UN aid officials had said the town was […]
By Laila Azzeh – May 26,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Experts participate in a session titled ‘The Secret of Attraction: ISIS Propaganda and Recruitment’ in Amman earlier this week (Photo courtesy of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) AMMAN — Faced with mounting economic hardships, young people are attracted to Daesh’s rhetoric and methods of […]
Source: Politico By NAHAL TOOSI The Obama administration, having declared two months ago that the Islamic State is committing genocide, is now grappling with how to actually prosecute the terrorist […]
In Syria and Lebanon there are no plans for a future, but the Syrian army is going to have a role in any New Syria Robert Fisk @indyvoic Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad […]
By COLLIN BINKLEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — May 24, 2016 Colleges in the U.S. are opening their doors — and their financial aid — to Syrian refugees. Over the past year, at least a dozen schools have promised to cover full or partial tuition for Syrian refugees who are accepted […]
By Khetam Malkawi – May 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan ranked among the top 10 refugee welcoming countries, according to a global index issued this week. The “Refugees Welcome Index” issued by Amnesty International, based on a global survey of more than 27,000 people and carried out […]
By AP – May 23,2016 -JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on March 9, 2016 shows US Army Gen.Joseph Votel as he testifies before a Senate committee. He visited Syria on Saturday (AFP photo by Jim Watson) NORTHERN SYRIA — On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander […]
Source: BBC A series of car and suicide bombings has hit two government strongholds on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. State media said at least 78 people were killed, while a monitoring group put the death toll at more than 145. Four bombings targeted bus stations in the port city of Tartous […]
Source: Huffington Post ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks. BEIRUT, May 23 (Reuters) – Bombs killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200 in Jableh and Tartous on […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Orange in Malmö When Fisal Abo Karaa stepped off the train in Malmö’s central station this time last year, exhausted after a long journey by train […]
The last rebels have su rrendered and now, at last, the full extent of martyrdom in Homs can be seen Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 Syria, 5 June 2014 Deep beneath the city of Homs, in the last days of the Syrian army’s siege, a desperate Islamist rebel wrote on the […]