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Syria’s Twitter girl tweets 'nowhere to go'

One day after her account disappeared from social media, a seven-year old Syrian girl who captured world attention with her Twitter messages re-tweeted again on Monday about her life under bombardment in the northern city of Aleppo. Bana Alabed disappeared from social media on Sunday after...

Syria rebels rule out withdrawal from Aleppo

Syrian rebels Monday ruled out leaving east Aleppo, despite sweeping government advances and Moscow's announcement it would hold talks with Washington on a total rebel withdrawal from the city. Yasser al-Youssef of the Nureddine al-Zinki rebel group said any plan "for the exit of rebel...

Syrian rebels set to lose more Aleppo districts

 (Zaman AlWasl)- Another key district of eastern Aleppo has effectively fallen to advancing Syrian regime forces, a rebel official said Monday, as the army and allied militia pressed an assault against the opposition-held enclave. "Karm al-Jabal and al-Shaar are considered...

489 arbitrary arrests recorded in November: SNHR

  The Syrian Network for Human Rights, in new report documenting the arbitrary arrests in Syria in November, said 394 people, including 11 children, and 19 women, were detained last month by the regime forces. The arrests made in Damascus focused on the age group 18-42 for the purpose...

Syrian rebels tell U.S. they won't leave Aleppo

 Syrian rebel groups have told the United States they will not leave Aleppo after Moscow called for talks with Washington over a full withdrawal of rebel fighters from the city's besieged eastern districts, a rebel official said on Sunday. Speaking to Reuters from Turkey, senior rebel...

Tartus mourned 28 officers, reservists in two weeks

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's powerful militant supplier, the coastal province of Tartus, mourned in the past two weeks at least 28 officers and reservists killed in Aleppo and Hama battlefields, pro-Assad social media accounts reported. The coffins shipments have been a daily...

Russia deploys more troops in Hmeimym base

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Russian warplanes landed in the Russia-controlled Hmeimym airbase in Latakia province on Friday, carrying 300 military personnel specialized in removing mines, source said. The new deployment come a day after Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced from Turkey...

Russia seeks full withdrawal of Aleppo rebels

 Russia said on Saturday it was ready for talks with the United States about a withdrawal of all Syrian rebels from eastern Aleppo, where advances by the Russian-backed Syrian army and its allies threaten to deal a crushing blow to the rebellion. In just over a week, the army and allied...

Syrian rebels lose more ground in Aleppo: monitor

Syrian regime forces have captured 60 percent of the area previously held by rebels in eastern Aleppo after gaining new ground on the city's eastern edge, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. At least seven plumes of smoke were seen rising from rebel-held areas of the city...

Syria regime seizes new rebel district in Aleppo

Syrian troops and allied forces advanced overnight seizing Aleppo's Tariq al-Bab neighborhood from rebels as they press an offensive to recapture all of the city, activists said Saturday. The capture of the neighborhood means the government has now retaken around 60 percent of the east of...