News From Syria

May 27, 2014, Sana News With only a week left before the presidential elections are held in Syria, the Syrian people continue to take to the streets and organize activities to express support for this momentous event. The Trade Union in Hama organized a festival to voice support for the …

May 27, 2014, Sky News Eleven members of a chemical weapons watchdog team thought to have been kidnapped are now safe and well. The team consisting of five Syrian drivers and six members of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were travelling to a site of an alleged …

May 27, 2014, the National Eleven people, including six members of a UN chemical weapons fact-finding mission, have been abducted by armed groups in Syria, said the foreign ministry. The ministry said the abductions occurred in the countryside around Hama in central Syria on Tuesday. It blamed rebels fighting to …

May 26, 2014, the National Last week, a prominent Arab archaeologist sent me a web­link to a doubly-depressing story from the Hasakeh region of north-east Syria. Bordering Turkey and Iraq, it’s long been one of the poorest areas in the country and now, with control of the area being contested …

May 26, 2014, al Akhbar Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch on Monday claimed responsibility for two car bomb attacks a day earlier in the central city of Homs that according to the governor killed 12 people. “God generously made it possible for the jihadists of al-Nusra Front in Homs… to break through …

May 22, 2014, AntiWar.com Syrian al-Qaeda faction Jabhat al-Nusra continues to make deep inroads in capturing territory south of Damascus, and its troops now control much of the foothills of the Golan Heights. Nusra fighters seized a hilltop position within view of Israel’s border forces, and rose the flag of …

May 23, 2014, al Akhbar Syrian rebels bombarded a campaign rally in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s June 3 election bid, killing a number of citizens, Syrian state media and a monitoring group said Friday. The mortar fire hit a tent where Assad supporters had gathered in the southern city …

May 17, 2014, Aina News According to a report from the website www.apsa2011.com, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has destroyed Assyrian statues and artifacts believed to be 3000 years old. The Assyrian archaeological artifacts were illegally excavated from the Tell Ajaja site. …

*[click here if video doesn’t load] May 17, 2014, Press TV The three presidential candidates in Syria, including incumbent President Bashar al-Assad, are pressing ahead with their campaigns as the June 3 election approaches, Press TV reports. In interviews with Press TV, two Syrian presidential candidates Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajjar …

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