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Jun 21, 2014, AFP Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have executed three officers of the Western and Arab-backed rebel Free Syrian Army, a monitor said Saturday. The bullet-riddled bodies of the three were found on Friday, two days after suspected Islamist militants kidnapped them …
Read More »Up to 186 Kurdish students kidnapped by Isis in northern Syria
Jun 26, 2014, the Guardian Mustafa Hassan had only been in captivity for a few hours and already he was planning his escape. After four days, he found his moment. While some of his fellow schoolboys distracted the religious teacher with questions, Hassan and a friend scaled a ladder on …
Read More »Car bomb explosion kills one in Syria’s Homs
Jun 24, 2014, Press TV [view on Press TV site if above video doesn’t load] At least one person has been killed in a car bomb explosion in the western Syrian city of Homs, as the crisis continues in the Arab country. Syrian media reports said that the bomb …
Read More »Syrian government forces recapture Kessab
Jun 15, 2014, al Akhbar Syrian government forces on Sunday recaptured the strategic town of Kessab, near the only border crossing with Turkey in northwestern province of Latakia, state television reported. “Units from the army are reestablishing security in the province of Latakia after killing a large number of …
Read More »Syrian Army Liberates Armenian Town of Kessab after Two Months of Occupation
Jun 15, 2014, NSNBC The Syrian Arab Army regained full control over the town of Kessab in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border on Sunday. The town was recaptured after systematic, step by step tactical operations to flush out the thousands of Jabhat al-Nusrah militants which swarmed across the Turkish …
Read More »ISIL photos show road being cut through Iraq-Syria border
Jun 11, 2014, Press TV Takfiri militants in Iraq have released pictures of militants bulldozing a barrier between the Iraqi-Syrian border, symbolizing their goal of uniting forces in the two countries. The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) posted the pictures online on Wednesday following their advance …
Read More »Hundreds killed as ISIL insurgents gain ground in east Syria
Jun 10, 2014, Reuters A six-week offensive by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against rival Islamists in eastern Syria has killed 600 fighters and driven 130,000 people from their homes, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. ISIL, which is battling to control a huge area of …
Read More »Syrian president announces general amnesty
Jun 9, 2014, Press TV Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a decree granting a ‘general amnesty’ for crimes committed during the Syria crisis which erupted in 2011. Syrian TV said on Monday that al-Assad’s decree covers all crimes committed to date. Syria’s justice minister has said that the …
Read More »For 2 years, the priest aided Christians through a Syrian siege. He didn’t see the end.
May 29, 2014, McClatchy And then there were 23. Just 23 Christians, most of them elderly, left alive in the besieged Old City of Homs when a masked gunman killed the beloved Dutch priest who’d consoled them during nearly two years of government bombardment and rebel-imposed isolation, when food supplies …
Read More »Assad wins presidential election with 88.7% of the vote
Jun 4, 2014, al Akhbar Bashar al-Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote in Syria’s presidential election, parliament speaker Mohammed al-Laham said on Wednesday. “I declare the victory of Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad as president of the Syrian Arab Republic with an absolute majority of the votes cast in the …
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