Jun 3, 2014, Times of India On Tuesday morning, a 40-year-old woman called Ferial Mustafa whose son was tortured to death by militants in Syria cast her vote for President Bashar Al Assad at a polling booth in Gundanieh, on the outskirts of Damascus. She stood proudly beside Assad’s photograph …
Read More »Syrians vote in presidential election
June 3, 2014, al Akhbar Syrians lined up outside polling centers around Syria on Tuesday to cast their ballots in a presidential election that Syria’s current President Bashar al-Assad is expected to win. The first multi-candidate presidential election in Syria in more than 40 years is taking place after three …
Read More »ISIL kills 102-year-old man, family in Syria
Jun 1, 2014, Yahoo News (AFP) – The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said. The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq …
Read More »27 killed in attacks in Syria’s Aleppo
Jun 2, 2014, Press TV [click HERE if above video does not load] At least 27 people have been killed in a shelling carried out by foreign-backed militants in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Some 80 more people were also injured on Monday after the militants fired more …
Read More »Militant mortar attacks on Aleppo kill 20
May 31, 2014, Press TV [click HERE if above video does not load] Twenty people have been killed in mortar attacks carried out by foreign-backed militants on Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo. The militants fired 40 mortar shells on several neighborhoods of the flashpoint city, destroying many buildings. Takfiri …
Read More »Terrorist ISIL militants kidnap 200 Kurds in Syria
May 30, 2014, Press TV Militants from terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have kidnapped nearly 200 Kurdish civilians from an area in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that ISIL members abducted at least 193 …
Read More »Syrians Working to Preserve Jewish Cultural Heritage
May 30, 2014, Counter Punch Jewish Quarter, the Old City, Damascus It’s always encouraging when one comes upon inspiring human phenomena here in Syria or elsewhere that refute the familiar and worn shibboleths and cliches about how this or that group or religion hates others and won’t cease targeting them …
Read More »Fresh militant mortar attacks kill Syrian civilians
May 30, 2014, Press TV Fresh attacks by foreign-backed militants in Syria have left at least two civilians dead, including a four-year-old child. This comes after the militants fired mortar shells at a residential area in the Damascus countryside on Firday. Authorities say the attack on Danoun Camp also injured …
Read More »Video shows ISIL Takfiris executing teen in Syria
May 30, 2014, Press TV [click on link if video does not load]Newly-released video footage shows al-Qaeda-affiliated militants executing a teenager for alleged robbery in eastern Syria as foreign-backed Takfiri groups continue their atrocities against Syrians. The video, recently surfaced on the Internet, shows militants belonging to the terrorist Islamic …
Read More »Syrian students hold pro-Assad rally in Idlib
May 30, 2014, Press TV Syrians continue to hold support rallies on an almost daily basis on the eve of the country’s first multi-candidate presidential election. In the western city of Idlib, students took to the streets and voiced their support for incumbent President Bashar al-Assad on Friday. The demonstrators …
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