EXPLAINER By Simon Bradley, Geneva MAR 14, 2016 – 11:26 A child injured in an unidentified bombing at Douma, north-east of Damascus, Syria on 10 March 2016 (Keystone) United Nations-brokered talks aimed at ending Syria’s five-year civil war are getting underway in Geneva on Monday. Here is a short guide […]
Five years ago, we were high on Arab revolutions, and journalists were growing used to ‘liberating’ Arab capitals Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 13 March 2016 Just before I left Syria last month, a tall and eloquent Franco-Lebanese man walked up to me in a Damascus coffee shop and introduced himself […]
Source: BBC In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to start withdrawing the “main part” of its forces in Syria from Tuesday. He said the Russian intervention had largely achieved its objectives. The comments come amid fresh peace talks in Geneva aimed at resolving the […]
By Natasha Bertrand March 2, 2016 View gallery . (Thomson Reuters) A boy looks on while residents inspect a damaged building in the rebel held besieged city of Douma, a suburb of Damascus A cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria, brokered by the US and Russia, officially came into effect last Saturday.In an […]
Mar 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI A shimmering mirage was offered last week to the Syrian people by the United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura when he spoke about a federal structure for future Syria. He was keen to engage the Kurdish People’s Defence Units in the forthcoming Geneva negotiations. […]
Analysis MARCH 6, 2016 Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Syria, passes through Damascus on July 17, 1917. Under Ottoman rule, Syria existed as a collection of culturally diverse provinces. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Analysis By Toba Hellerstein The quagmire that is contemporary Syria is as infinitely complex as it was […]
King of Saudi Arabia orders food, medical aid for devastated Syrian regions Mar 7, 2016 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will provide food and medical aid to the most devastated regions in Syria in cooperation with the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies. An agreement to this […]
By Reuters – Mar 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A student attends a class inside the Freedom School, in the town of Al Tamanah, in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT/GENEVA — The Syrian opposition said on Wednesday there had been fewer breaches of […]
Documents appearing to have been stolen from Isis’ border authority Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Thursday 3 March 2016 41 comments Anyone passing into Isis territory undergoes stringent checks to weed out potential spies Details of more than a dozen British Isis members are among 22,000 recruits reportedly revealed in a cache of leaked documents […]
By AFP – Mar 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrians carry aid, in the form of diesel fuel, delivered by the Qatari Red Crescent in the rebel-held town of Beit Sawa, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on Monday (AFP photo) GENEVA — A new round of talks aimed […]
Mar 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR) has started discussing the scope of socio-economic rights that migrants could be entitled to in hosting countries. It also determined that “migrants”, as distinguished from “migrant workers”, is the correct term to […]
Mar 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The ceasefire agreement in Syria was imposed by a UN resolution in order to make a political settlement in Syria possible. The ceasefire will help restructure the status of various fighting groups and hopefully will put an end to the chaotic supply […]
As Stalingrad-size casualties mount in civil war Syria today, it’s worth remembering how the French and British thought they could create a ‘modern’ Syria in 1941 Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 6 March 2016 36 comments As General de Gaulle set out for the Middle East in April of 1941, he famously wrote that […]
Story by Moni Basu, CNN Video and photos by Matthew Gannon, CNN Lethbridge, Alberta (CNN) Muna Ali adjusts the hijab covering her wavy brown locks as she pushes a cart […]
Migrant crisis: EU and Turkey hold ‘difficult’ summit Source: BBC Migrant crisis EU migration: Crisis in seven charts Migrant crisis: Have EU promises been kept? In depth report Why is […]
Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, speaks during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday. (AP) AFP Published — Saturday 5 March 2016 PARIS: United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura said Friday the Syrian people, not […]
Reuters International MAR 5, 2016 – 09:16 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a late phone conversation on Friday called for a prompt start to the next round of Syria peace talks, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The […]
By Ramzy Baroud When Arab streets exploded with fury, from Tunis to Sanaa, pan-Arabism seemed, then, like a nominal notion. Neither did the so-called ‘Jasmine Revolution’ use slogans that affirmed its Arab identity, nor did angry Egyptian youth raise the banner proclaiming Arab unity atop the high buildings adjacent to […]
By AFP – Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A woman carries goods she allegedly looted in Shadadi town, Hasaka countryside, Syria, on Friday (Reuters photo by Rodi Said) DAMASCUS — Fighting subsided across much of Syria on Saturday as the first major ceasefire of the devastating, five-year war […]
Source: Indian Express A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect across Syria on Saturday, marking the biggest international push to reduce violence in the country’s […]