News From Syria

Aug 22, 2015, Press TV The Damascus bureau chief of Iran’s English-language Press TV and Arabic-language al-Alam news channels has been transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after being shot by terrorists in southwestern Syria. Hossein Mortada suffered spinal and pelvis injury in an attack by foreign-backed militants in the city of Dara’a. Mortada is …

Aug, 20, 2015, Counter Punch -by Eva Bartlett Part One highlighted the siege and shelling of two villages in northwestern Syria which have been under siege by al-Nusra and allies since the end of March, 2015. As of August 17, at least 130 residents. “K” is introduced as a resident …

Aug 18, 2015, Counter Punch -by Eva Bartlett Part One of Two Infant Rimas Al-Nayef was one of at least 5 children killed by NATO-backed terrorists’ shelling on August 10, 2015 in the northwestern Syrian village of Foua. Another 25 residents were killed by the up to 1,500 rockets and …

Crescent Online: War is murky business but it gets even dirtier when the enemy’s alleged crimes are amplified and those of their own covered up. This is what is happening in the besieged villages of Kafarya and Foua in Syria’s Idlib province. The Jabhat al Nusra terrorists have perpetrated a …

  Latest update: **note, these are the words of friends in Beirut who have family in Kafarya & Foua. “This morning, official news were announced regarding a truce for 48 hours in “Zabadani” and “Kafarya & Foua” after negotiations between Turks and Iranians. The Truce was supposed to start at …

Aug 8, 2015, Al Masdar News “Eleven civilians were killed and another 46 were injured in terrorist attacks with rocket shells that hit Damascus city on Saturday. A police source told SANA that a rocket shell that terrorists fired from Jobar neighborhood fell in al-Thawra Street, which is one of …

Jul 29, 2015, SANA The Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the Turkish government directly responsible for the shedding of Syrian blood, calling on the Security Council and the UN to compel states to comply with counterterrorism resolutions, and stressing that eliminating terrorism requires a binding group effort. In …

Jul 28, 2015, SANA The body of late Journalist Thaer al-Ajlani was escorted on Tuesday from Tishreen Military Hospital to Sham FM Radio, where he was working as war correspondent, and then to his house before taken to his final resting place in family’s cemetery at Bab Sagir in Damascus. …

Jul 27, 2015, SANA President Bashar al-Assad said that any political idea for resolving the crisis in Syria that isn’t based on eliminating terrorism is a meaningless idea that has no chance of seeing the light; therefore the priority is eliminating terrorism wherever it is found in Syria. In a …

Jul 27, 2015, What’s Left Below are excerpts from a July 26, 2015 speech Syrian president Bashar al-Assad delivered in Damascus. On the West’s double standards on terrorism [Western powers] call it terrorism when it hits them, and call it revolution, freedom, democracy, and human rights when it hits us. …