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Syrian armed forces moved into Homs on Friday, the provincial governor told Reuters, combing through rubble-filled streets for booby traps and mines a day after hundreds of rebels left the central city as part of a deal with the government. Standing in...
Returning to her home in the war-ravaged Homs neighbourhood of Hamidiyeh, Huda found nothing where her house once stood but a pile of rubble and a lone cup from her coffee service. She was among hundreds who were allowed to return Friday to inspect the damage to homes they...
Agence France Presse, Washington U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday stood side-by-side with Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Jarba in a public show of support, but made no mention of the rebels' plea for heavy weapons to help end the war. Jarba,...
The Turkish aid agency (Humanitarian Relief) said on Friday that Syrian warplanes have attacked its convoy in Aleppo Province, killing one person and injuring two. EA WorldView reported "A second aid truck was hit by Assad forces. The trucks were...
Sources report that insurgents have pushed back an attack by Hezbollah and Syrian forces in the Zahra section of northwest Aleppo and that they now control the main Street and surroundings, sources said according to EA WorldView. Opposition forces have...
Homs (Syria) (AFP) - The last rebels were set to leave Syria's battleground city of Homs on Friday, handing a symbolic victory to President Bashar al-Assad in what was once dubbed the capital of the revolution. For two years the rebels fought to keep besieging government forces at...
Syrian activists have posted an audio recording for a commander in Bashar al-Assad’s army showed he was ordering his soldiers to use chemical weapons against rebels in areas affiliated to his control in Idlib and Hama provinces. Regime...
Syrian social media activists have launched on Thursday a new hashtag on Twitter # BloodElections “to expose the coming presidential elections,” calling for all activists inside Syria and abroad to take apart in the campaign. The campaign organizers called...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping up pressure on Syria, the Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned six Syrian officials and a Russian bank for their alleged support of the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been fighting opposition forces in a 3-year-old bloody civil...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the mission charged with destroying Syria's chemical weapons said Thursday the last 16 containers of dangerous chemical agents awaiting transport out of the country are in a contested area not far from Damascus that is currently inaccessible....
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At least 80 percent of rebel fighters have already pulled out of the battleground Syrian city of Homs and the rest will leave on Thursday, the provincial governor told AFP. The negotiated withdrawal from the city centre where the rebels had held out under tight siege for nearly two years...
(AP) — A rebel-claimed bombing Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo leveled a hotel that government troops used as a military base, along with several other buildings in a government-held area, activists and militants said. Syrian state television said an explosion...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Lebanon was still denying entry to Palestinians fleeing the war in neighbouring Syria Wednesday, despite its insistence there was "no decision" to keep them out. "UNRWA has been monitoring the situation at the crossing point at...
Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces, according to AP. The exit of some 1,200 fighters and...
By Indo Asian News Service- Syria launched airstrikes on the Lebanese border towns of Arsal and Al-Qaa in the eastern parts of the country, media reported Wednesday. The raids targeted gunmen fleeing the Syrian territories, Xinhua reported citing Lebanon's National News Agency....
(AFP) Human Rights Watch and a UN refugee agency both expressed concern on Tuesday that Lebanon was blocking Palestinians fleeing war-torn Syria from entering the country. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said it was "concerned about the increased restrictions on...
Some 2,000 rebels and civilians were to begin leaving besieged opposition-held districts of Homs city in central Syria on Wednesday under a deal between fighters and the government. Activists on the ground said two buses arrived in Homs early morning to begin the first of the...
