News From Syria

The following story is republished from Muraselon: The Syrian Reporters. A sum of 11 members of the pro-militants White Helmets Organization and non-Syrians experts were killed after a huge explosion at the terrorists’ chemical workshop in Idlib province near the border with Turkey, a Russian media outlet reported on Saturday. …

The following article, by Tom Westcott, is republished from Middle East Eye. It was originally published on September 16, 2018. MHARDEH, Syria – Each night, the streets of the Christian town of Mhardeh teem with life. Young people in trendy attire drink beer and smoke Shisha pipes, shyly eyeing up attractive …

January 5, 2017, The Wall Will Fall -Vanessa Beeley Fares Shehabi, Aleppo MP and Head of Aleppo Chamber of Commerce. Jon Snow, in another of Channel 4’s appalling displays of aggressive propagandizing, attacked Fares Shehabi, even, falsely, accusing him of attacking his own people during the liberation of East Aleppo from …

May 25, 2016, Russia Today A series of blasts that struck the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartus left a trail of over 140 dead on Monday. As medics fought to help survivors live, RT managed to talk to some of those injured in the gruesome terror attack. Four …

May 23, 2016, 21st Century Wire “We forgot what is to wake up to sunshine in this land now we wake up to limbs all over the streets, to cries of fear, to the smell of blood..” ~ Shababeek Souria This morning, at 9am, a series of suicide bomb attacks …

*note: since initial reports, the number of dead is now over 100. May 23, 2016, SANA At least 78 people were killed and scores, were injured, some critically, in a series of terrorist bombings that rocked the coastal cities of Tartous  and Jableh on Monday morning. A source at Lattakia …

“Palmyra’s citadel. The Syrian Army and Russian air power made great efforts to avoid historic sites, but the citadel did suffer some damage in the fierce fighting,, as DAESH tried to seize that higher ground.” -Professor Tim Anderson   April 16, 2016, Professor Tim Anderson [see: Why Palmyra, Recently Liberated, …

-Ken Stone,  Treasurer, Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War Damascus: Today, the members of the Second International Tour of Peace to Syria were offered the privilege of accompanying the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church as he went to vote in the Syrian parliamentary elections. Gregorious III, the spiritual …

  © Eva Bartlett A newly opened fruit and vegetable stand in Homs’ Old City. Mon, 07 Mar 2016, SOTT.net -Eva Bartlett In April 2014 I first visited Syria, going to Homs and Latakia, in addition to Damascus. On each of my three subsequent trips to Syria, speaking moderate colloquial …

Jan 18, 2016, American Herald Tribune ISIS committed a massacre in Eastern Syrian city of Deir el-Zour on Sunday leaving as many as 280 people dead. News agencies reported different death tolls with state news agencies reporting a number as high as 300 people and opposition groups and news agencies …