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London-based human rights group says over 2 million children are malnourished and suffer health problems A total of 14,629 children were killed in Syrian regime attacks against opposition forces since March 2011, according to a London-based rights group. The Syrian Network for...
International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Thursday that a deal between trapped fighters and civilians in Homs city and the Syrian authorities had broken down, as government forces appeared close to retaking the besieged opposition area. Homs, a religiously-mixed city,...
Syria has submitted a "more specific" list of its chemical weapons to the global regulator overseeing the destruction of its stockpile after discrepancies were reported by inspectors on the ground, officials said. Damascus agreed to give up its chemical arsenal after Washington...
PALMYRA, Syria — The imposing stone colonnades still stand, below stark hills dotted with tombs. They still glow peach-pink in the afternoon sun, impassive, as if unimpressed by what is, after all, not their first war. At the first-century Temple of Bel, one of the...
The Huffington Post| When the Syrian civil war began more than three years ago, Mariam Hamou took to Facebook and Twitter to spread the word about the brutality of the Syrian government and encourage Western governments to halt the violence. From her home in London, Ontario, she is still...
The rise of extremist groups swelled by fighters from the west has inflicted extra suffering on Syria's people and made a national uprising impossible The results of new research reported by the Guardian this week on young westerners who have travelled to Syria to fight in the...
AFP- Syria has reached a "critical moment" as the world awaits news of fresh peace talks, China's foreign minister told the warring nation's opposition leader Ahmad Jarba in Beijing Wednesday.
“Allah bless Erdogan, Allah bless the governor, Allah bless Turkey.” Praise for Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is in short supply amid a wave of anti-government protests that have rocked the country since...
Islamist rebels, who control Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, have detained three female activists, who were freed from the Syrian regime’s prisons via Maloula Nuns' deal, in which 153 female prisoner were freed. Two of them were released, while Yasmin al-Binshi kept detained....
Jordanian air force fighter jets have destroyed a number of combat vehicles trying to cross into the kingdom from neighboouring Syria, according to the army. A Syrian military source cited by state television in Damascus said, however, that the vehicles that were struck on...
Syrian troops and pro-regime militiamen fought their way into rebel-held neighbourhoods of the central city of Homs on Tuesday after besieging them for nearly two years. Meanwhile, rebels elsewhere in the country have received for the first time at least 20 US-made TOW anti-tank...
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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned the Syrian regime’s alleged use of poison gas in central Hama, calling for “stern” action by the international community against Damascus. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the “dangerous information on the...
Young Somali refugees living in the world's largest refugee camp, in Kenya, have sent letters of encouragement to Syrian refugee children who have also had to flee their homeland. The young Somali students reside in the Dadaab refugee camp, in north-eastern Kenya. It is...
Albanian police say they have arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly recruiting men to enlist with Muslim rebel groups fighting in Syria. A police statement said the suspect was taken into custody Tuesday and will face charges of recruiting for terrorist activities. If convicted, he...
Members of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday viewed graphic pictures taken in Syria by a former military police photographer that showed what appeared to be evidence of brutal torture, including eye gougings, strangulation and long-term starvation. The informal council...
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Syria's army launched a major ground assault on the central city of Homs on Tuesday, state television said, with troops entering rebel-held districts under government siege for nearly two years. "The Syrian army and the (pro-regime militia) National Defence Forces (NDF) have...
The Syrian Football Association says a national youth team player has been killed in a mortar attack in the central city of Homs. SFA President Salah Ramadan says Tarek Ghrair, 15, died on Tuesday when a mortar exploded near his home in Ghouta, a western district of Homs where the...
