(BEIRUT) — Activists say Syrian government troops are advancing in a push to oust rebels from the central city of Homs.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says troops loyal to President Bashar Assad regained control Thursday of the Wadi Sayeh district in the center of Homs.
The neighborhood is strategically
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Given the many resolutions on Syria that have hit a brick wall at the U.N. Security Council, and the endless wrangling among Western leaders over how to end the calamitous two-year war, the April 22 decision by E.U. foreign …
(AMMAN, Jordan) — Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance at a Damascus power station on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near the city center, killing one and wounding over two dozen people, Syria‘s
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(JERUSALEM) — The Arab League‘s decision to sweeten its decade-old proposal offering comprehensive peace with Israel has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bind and swiftly exposed fissures in his new government.
Netanyahu’s chief peace negotiator on Tuesday welcomed the modified Arab proposal, while the prime minister …
(BEIRUT) — The leader of Lebanon‘s Hezbollah militant group said Tuesday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad‘s regime militarily, warning that Syria’s “real friends,” including his
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(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Syrian state TV says the powerful explosion that struck central Damascus has killed 13 people and wounded 70.
The nature of Tuesday’s blast in the central district of Marjeh was not immediately clear but rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime have increasingly targeted Damascus, the seat of his …
(GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip )— A Palestinian medical official says an Israeli airstrike has targeted a motorcyclist in the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and wounding two people.
Ashraf al-Kidra, Gaza’s health ministry spokesman, says the killed man was identified as a 29-year-old police officer.
But Israel’s Channel 2 TV says …
(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Syria’s prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the heart of the heavily defended capital Monday, state media said, laying bare the vulnerability of President Bashar Assad’s regime.
The bombing, which killed several other people, highlights an accelerating campaign targeting government …
(BAGHDAD) — Five car bombs exploded Monday in public areas in predominantly Shiite cities and districts in central and southern Iraq, killing 26 civilians and wounding dozens, officials said.
The blasts come amid a week-long spike in sectarian violence following clashes at a Sunni protest camp in the north of the country. No one …
(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Syria’s prime minister escaped an assassination attempt Monday when a bomb went off near his convoy in Damascus, state media reported, the latest attack targeting a top official in President Bashar Assad’s …
(BEIRUT) — The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein‘s 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq that killed thousands.
That …
