920,000 displaced in Syria in 2018, highest since conflict began — UN
By AFP – Jun 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syrians check the damage in an area targeted by reported air strikes by pro-government forces in the town of Binnish in Idlib province on […]
Syria’s ruined Ghouta unrecognisable to returnees
‘I risked my life to come here and I won’t leave until I find my home’ By AFP – Apr 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian government forces soldier talks […]
Syria war enters complicated, confusing phase
Apr 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The war in Syria has entered a new, complicated and confusing phase. Having gradually won back territory seized by insurgents of different […]
How rebels and civilians survived near total destruction of eastern Ghouta through huge network of tunnels
Most reports estimate 1,500 civilians have been killed in the bombardment by Russia and the Syrian government, but many more – and the Islamist fighters opposing the regime – would have died without this once […]
‘Final evacuation deal’ reached for Syria’s Ghouta
‘Rebels to leave Douma for opposition territory in northern Syria’ By AFP – Apr 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A man walks with his bicycle at a damaged site in the […]
Deal to evacuate hundreds of civilians from Syria’s Douma: monitor
By AFP – Apr 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Beirut – Syrian regime ally Russia struck a deal with rebels to evacuate hundreds of civilians from Douma, the final opposition pocket […]
Watching on as Islamist fighters are evacuated from war-torn Eastern Ghouta
I watched them stand beneath those shattered trees to pray. They had long scraggly beards, most of them uncombed, cheap track suits, dusty plastic sandals. I suppose it was a […]
These are the faces of those who have been affected by the siege of Eastern Ghouta
Robert Fisk discovers it would take a year, if not a decade, to understand the killing and the cynicism and the innocent suffering behind this epic battle Robert Fisk in Eastern Ghouta […]
Negotiations continue between rebels and the Syrian Army, but the bombardment of Ghouta won’t stop any time soon
Exclusive: Ghouta will fall. That is the message. And when it falls, Idlib must surely be next. And then the Syrians must decide how to break the US-Kurdish hold on Raqqa Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices Syria continues to mass its armed forces around the east Ghouta enclave of Damascus, […]