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Ashraf was born the very day the Syria conflict began: March 15, 2011. He is the seventh child in a family from Homs. Within a week of his birth, the conflict arrived in his neighbourhood. For months his family rarely left the house. Some days there was non-stop bombing, others were...
After three years of war in Syria, one of the things we have learnt is that al-Qaeda’s followers don’t really want to live in the seventh century. Their favoured social medium is Twitter, and they often use the modern vernacular when they tweet. Here is what one jihadist wrote recently...
Opposition fighters in Syria claim to have kidnapped at least 94 women and children belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, according to a video obtained by Al Jazeera. In the video, broadcast by Al Jazeera on Thursday, the rebels...
As the third anniversary of the Syrian uprising arrives Saturday, the last of 100,000 names of people killed in the conflict will be read aloud outside the White House. A project lasting continuously for three days, it involves over 140 people reading aloud for half-hour periods,...
Syria's civil war has ravaged the country's economy, causing damage that could take years to repair, and people have been forced to focus on finding basic necessities, like food and fuel, experts say. Gross domestic product has plunged nearly 40 percent since 2010, the year before the war began,...
As Syria's conflict enters its fourth year, ravaging the country and creating a massive humanitarian crisis, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is on the offensive to regain territory from a divided opposition. Diplomatic efforts by Russia and the United States are all but on hold with the...
Syrian war planes continued to strike Yabroud Thursday, the Qalamoun Media Center reported, as official government news agency SANA said the Syrian army had advanced from the Rima farms toward Yabroud, destroying “terrorist dens full of weapons and munitions, and killing a number of them.”...
Argentine and FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi has also turned to Facebook to raise awareness for the suffering of Syrian children after his rival Cristiano Ronaldo took a similar move earlier Wednesday. Messi wrote on his Facebook page: “Don't let the #childrenofsyria...
As the Syrian revolution enters its fourth year, the question remains as to whether Bashar al-Assad’s regime will exit power or whether it will finally be able to eliminate the opposition and subjugate the majority revolting against it? The enormous number of daily battles...
Opposition Coalition's Ambassador to Qatar Nizar al-Heraki claimed, in a phone call with Zaman Alwasl, that the embassy will renew Syrians passports in the upcoming days within a legal acknowledged framework. “We are about % 60 ready and within the next days will be fully...
Israel bombed 29 targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, after Palestinian militants in the coastal territory fired 60 rockets into Israel in the heaviest such barrage since 2012. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the...
Egypt's army blamed the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood for an attack on an army bus which killed one officer and wounded three others in the capital on Thursday, violence underscoring growing security threats to the military-backed government. Masked gunmen had opened fire on...
Founder of Syrian Community in Arab Gulf countries (SCAGC) has confirmed the Syrian regime decision to close Syrian Embassies in Riyadh, Kuwait and Washington. Jameel Daghestani said the reason behind such an act is to strip Syrian expatriates, mainly the anti-Assad regime, from...
After a period of muted tensions between Qatar on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the other, conflict publicly surfaced once the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain decided to recall their ambassadors from Doha. Kuwait and Oman declined to follow suit. Though...
After months of battlefield stalemate in Syria , a flurry of reports from Washington, Jerusalem, Amman and the Gulf suggests a major new clandestine effort is under way to open up a "southern front" against the regime of Bashar al-Assad . Central to the mooted plan is a renewed...
An explosion followed by a fire at an apartment building in upper Manhattan on Wednesday has left one person dead and at least 16 people injured, officials say. According to ABC's New York affiliate , at least 16 people were injured, including one with "heavy trauma." The conditions...
Islamist militants and their local supporters have killed at least 22 people in a village in northern Syria near the Turkish border, opposition activists said on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group quoted residents in Shuyukh, 100 km...
Iran hosted a rival version of a "Friends of Syria" conference on Wednesday, convening lawmakers from allies around the world to push for a diplomatic solution to Syria's civil war and lambaste alleged Western interference. Iran is a longtime ally of President Bashar al-Assad, whose...
President Bashar al-Assad visited displaced Syrians in the town of Adra on Wednesday, state media said, in a rare public appearance outside the heart of Damascus. State television said Assad inspected a shelter for people displaced by fighting in Adra, which lies about 12...
Syrians in the Damascus district of Yarmouk are being forced to eat dogs, cats and inedible plants, a new Amnesty International report released on Monday has found. Starvation is being used as a “weapon of war,” Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Middle East and North...
