News From Syria

Nov 3, 2013, Daily Star A leading Syrian rebel commander announced his resignation Sunday, in the wake of battlefield setbacks and infighting among rebel groups. Col. Abdel-Jabbar Ukaidi, the head of the Aleppo Revolutionary Military Council of the mainstream Free Syrian Army, also had harsh words for the international community …

Oct 27, 2013, al Akhbar Powerful armed groups in Syria said attending peace talks or negotiating with Damascus would be an act of betrayal. The joint declaration by the 19 Islamist groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad cast further doubt on whether the long-delayed peace talks dubbed “Geneva 2” …

Oct 24, 2013, RT.com Syrian Islamist militants have released a video of allegedly a Russian engineer they captured. The man says he will be killed unless exchanged for an imprisoned Saudi. The authenticity of the video has not yet been confirmed. The video posted online on Wednesday features a bearded, …

  Oct 17, 2013 The Syrian government has turned over to the United Nations a Canadian staffer who went missing eight months ago. The Canadian lawyer Carl Campeau went missing in February in the Damascus area of Khan al-Shih on February 17, 2013. Campeau was able to escape after his …

Oct 14, 2013, RT.com Russia’s Foreign Minister says Syria’s leading opposition group is refusing to attend peace talks in Geneva because Western powers are either unwilling or unable to persuade them to take part. Moscow and Washington are both staking a lot on the talks as a way to find …

Oct 15, 2013, Sana Prime Minister, Wael al-Halqi, stressed on Monday that the return of the displaced Syrians is evidence of their clinging to their homeland to contribute to the reconstruction process of the renewed Syria. In a press statement during his inspection tour in Jdeidet Yabous border crossing, al-Halqi …

Oct13, 2013, RT.com Some 1,500 civilians were evacuated from a hotspot suburb of Damascus on Sunday, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said. It comes as the Syrian National Council declared they wouldn’t attend peace talks in Geneva threatening to quit the National Coalition. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) said …

Oct 13, 2013, RT.com Multiple bomb blasts have rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus, a mortar attack on Syrian TV among them, reports RT’s correspondent at the scene. Suicide bombers blew up two booby-trapped cars near the General Organization of Radio and TV in Damascus, state TV reported. The other …

Oct 13, 2013, BBC The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says gunmen have abducted six of its workers and one Red Crescent volunteer in north-west Syria. The aid agency has had no contact with the gunmen, an ICRC spokesman says. Earlier, Syrian state media said gunmen opened fire …

Oct 13, 2013, al Akhbar A key group within the Syrian opposition National Coalition said Sunday it would not attend proposed peace talks in Geneva and would quit the Coalition if it participated. “The Syrian National Council, which is the biggest bloc in the Coalition, has taken the firm decision… …