News From Syria

May 30, 2014, Reuters An al Qaeda renegade group killed 15 Kurdish people, seven of them children, in an attack on a village in northern Syria, a monitoring group and a photographer at the scene said on Friday. The attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which …

  May 29, 2014, Damascus countryside: A video clip shot in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus shows the shrouding of an old man who died of hunger. A young man in his prime and in good health appears in the clip standing in front of the emaciated …

May 28, 2014, Sana Terrorists fired mortar shells on Damascus city, claiming the lives of four citizens and injuring scores others. A source at the Police Command told SANA that two mortar rounds fell on al-Nejmeh square and al-Hassan street, claiming the lives of two citizens. SANA reporter said that …

May 27, 2014, Sana News Seven citizens got injured when terrorists fired a mortar shell on al-Bairouni University Hospital for cancerous tumors in Harasta, Damascus Countryside on Tuesday. A source at police command in the province said that the shell landed in front of the Hospital, injuring seven people and …

May 27, 2014, al Akhbar Syria said Tuesday the United Arab Emirates has banned its expats from voting in the country’s June 3 presidential election, after similar moves by France, Germany and Belgium. On the eve of the election to be held abroad on Wednesday, “the UAE has joined the …

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 …