Apr 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN We are at risk of producing a lost generation of young Syrians. Nearly six years of civil war have displaced them from their homes, denied them the chance to plan for their future and stolen their hopes. And in hopelessness, as we […]
Source: CBS News BEIRUT— The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a Syrian opposition monitoring group […]
Source: Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan — The first Syrian family to be resettled in the U.S. under a speeded-up “surge operation” for refugees left Jordan on Wednesday for Kansas City, […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian family is escorted at the airport to catch a flight to the US, where they will have a refugee status as part of a programme to host 10,000 Syrians in America, on Wednesday (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) […]
Voices As the journalist Wolfgang Bauer reminds us, the Syrian people witness the horrors of the Paris and Brussels attacks every single day Robert Fisk @indyvoices 11 comments The most relevant newspaper cartoon on the asylum story popped up on the front page of The Irish Times this week, for […]
Source: The New York Times By LAILA Laila is a licensed hairdresser. She asked that her surname be withheld because she fears telling her story could endanger her family in […]
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Reporting was contributed by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt from Washington, Laure Fourquet and Aurelien Breeden from Paris, Katrin Bennhold from […]
Reuters International MAR 30, 2016 – 17:03 By Jack Stubbs and Lisa Barrington MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad said it would not be difficult to agree a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on Wednesday that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in […]
In the end, it was the Syrian army – and its Hizballah chums from Lebanon, and the Iranians, and the Russians – who drove the Isis murderers out of Palmyra Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 27 March 2016 306 comments The biggest military defeat that Isis has suffered in more than two […]
Reuters International MAR 27, 2016 – SWISSINFO.CH By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces recaptured Palmyra on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group said, inflicting a significant defeat on the Islamic State group which seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. Syrian television quoted […]
White Helmets, a non-sectarian group of ordinary people, was officially formed in 2014 and now has 3,000 volunteers Women volunteers of the White Helmets, which is a group of unarmed men and women set up in 2014 to fill the voImage Credit: Whitehelmets.org White Helmets volunteers rescue children from a […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The complex situation across all of Syria has become ever more challenging with the recent announcement by major Kurdish parties that they are moving ahead with a plan to unite several disconnected areas across all of northern Syria into a semi-autonomous […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL While the Syrian government delegation to the peace talks in Geneva rejects any discussion of the future of President Bashar Assad, opposition leaders insist he must go if a transition government is to be instated in the country, taking talks back to a […]
By Reuters – Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on March 14, 2014, shows a partial view of the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, 215 kilometres northeast of Damascus (AFP photo) BEIRUT — Syrian soldiers and their allies advanced to within 1km of Palmyra on Thursday and […]
By Reuters – Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Syria, arrives for a meeting with the delegation of the High Negotiations Committee during the Syria peace talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday (AP photo) […]
Mar 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD The apparent sudden Russian military withdrawal from Syria, starting on March 15, left political commentators puzzled. Few of the analyses offered should be taken seriously. There is little solid information as of why the Russian leader decided to end his country’s military push […]
Mar 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The March 17 decision of Kurds in the north of Syria to vote in favour of autonomy for their areas can only complicate the already complex process intended to end the five-year-old civil war in the country and then, hopefully, usher in a […]
The fixation on jihadists is distracting attention away from the troubling rise of far-right extremism in Europe. 17 Mar 2016 07:23 GMT | The exaggerated hype around jihadists makes ordinary Europeans feel much less safer than they actually are and shakes their trust in their Muslim compatriots, writes Diab [The […]
SWISS TERRORISM TRIAL Islamic State verdicts mark ‘turning point’ By Simon Bradley MAR 19, 2016 – 15:24 Some of the accused in the courtroom via a sketch artist (Keystone) Leading Swiss papers have welcomed the Federal Criminal Court’s ‘exemplary’ convictions of foreign Islamist militants, accused of planning a terror attack […]
Mar 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The dread word “federalism” is back on the forked tongues of politicians and diplomats in discussions of the shape of Syria, if and when the war ends. UN mediator Staffan de Mistura should be ashamed to have put “federalism” on the agenda […]