CAIRO: Concern is growing for three human rights defenders being held incommunicado at a military base near Damascus, amid reports they may be facing ongoing torture, Amnesty International said. Hani Zitani, Abd al-Rahman Hamada and Mansour al-Omari are being held in the town of al-Mo’damiya outside the capital, at a base run by the Fourth [...]
CAIRO: Egypt Foreign Minister, Kamel Amr said, during a meeting with a delegation from the Syrian National Council (SNC), the developments of the Syrian crisis have proved that the Egyptian ideas since the beginning of the crisis were and still are the only applicable vision to resolve the crisis. Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Amr [...]
CAIRO: The Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Kofi Annan, will continue consultations with heads of governments in the Arab region to seek support for his mission in Syria, his spokesperson said. “He [Annan] intends to visit Teheran in the near future as well as Riyadh to impress [...]
CAIRO: With over 10,000 Syrian civilians have been killed in the 13-month-long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey’s Prime Minister Reccip Tayyip Erdogan has called for intervention from the international community to end the bloodshed. “We need a moral intervention, we must ensure our consciences prevail. No other concerns, no other interests must interfere,” he [...]
CAIRO: The Lebanese army has intercepted two vehicles carrying weapons, with their suspected destination being Syria, a Lebanese security sources told German press agency dpa on Wednesday. The army stopped the vehicles in al-Qaa after suspicions were raised that it was carrying weapons. The area witnessed heavy clashes between Syrian government troops and rebels on [...]
Washington (dpa) – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Saudi Arabia later this week to discuss the ongoing violence in Syria and other regional issues, the State Department said Monday. Clinton will meet with King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal in Riyadh during the Friday and Saturday visit and [...]
Beirut (dpa) – New York-based pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Addad of using civilians as human shields in their offensive against pro-democracy activists. Witnesses in the northern province of Idlib cited by HRW said they saw the army and pro-government militias force people to march [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition strongholds and clashed with rebel fighters around the country on Saturday, killing at least two people, activists said. The heavy fighting focused on the villages of Sermin and Khan Sheikhoun, in the northern province of Idlib, forcing local rebels to retreat from both areas, activists said. [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have begun to attack targets in the capital Damascus to prove they can reach even the most well defended sites, according to activists and analysts. “They’re now focusing their operations on Damascus for two major reasons,” a Lebanese military expert, who requested anonymity, told [...]
Damascus (dpa)- Syria’s Olympic team, led by Portuguese coach Rui Almeida, will be trying to put the country’s political troubles behind them by taking a step next week towards qualification for the Olympic Games in London. The squad is on its way to Vietnam where they will take on Oman on Sunday in the Asian [...]
In India, it’s “Porngate.” In France, it’s the live and non-stop coverage of a man who shot students at a local Jewish school – imagine if the shooter had shot up a Muslim school – and in the United State, it’s politicking chitter chatter. While in Syria, scores of civilians are being killed daily; in [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian embassy in Damascus reported on Monday that 100 Egyptians were deported from Syria in only three months. Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA), reported that12 Egyptians were deported on Monday, after they were arrested by the Syrian Authorities for illegal entry. The embassy explained that it intervened to release and repatriate [...]
Amman (dpa)- Jordan has completed its first camp for refugees from neighboring Syria, officials told dpa Monday, as a spike in violence in the country leads to a surge in displaced Syrians. According to a source at Jordan’s Ministry of Public Works, authorities have completed the refugee camp on the outskirts of the city of [...]
CAIRO: At least 80 people have been killed in heavy clashes on Monday between the opposition Free Syrian Army rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on the outskirts of Damascus, activists said. “Some 50 members of the government forces were killed, among them an officer,” Haytham al-Abdullah, an activist in Damascus told German [...]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said over 10,000 Syrians have been killed since the spark of the popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad in March of last year. Asaad’s army is violently cracking down on protests and attacking residential areas across Syria with heavy artillery and tanks. The London-based network said in a recent [...]
CAIRO and DUBAI: A senior Egyptian cleric has lashed out at both Qatar and Saudi Arabia, saying the two Gulf countries are “servants” of Israel. He added that the two countries, voiceful in their condemnation of Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on protesters, are serving American and Israeli agendas in Syria. “Firstly, is there [...]
CAIRO: Syrian state television has reported two massive explosions have occurred in the Syrian capital, Damascus on Saturday morning. It is not clear what the damage, or death toll is from the explosions. Locals have confirmed to Bikyamasr.com the sound of what they have said are bomb attacks, but details are limited at the moment. [...]
ISTANBUL (dpa): Turkey has issued a warning to its nationals in Syria to leave the country due to the increasingly serious security situation, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. “Due to the serious security risks in certain Syrian cities it is strongly recommended that Turkish citizens residing in Syria return home,” a statement said. The [...]
AMMAN (dpa): Jordanian officials have reported a rise in attempt to smuggle guns into Syria amidst calls by local jihadists to send mujahideen fighters to combat forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. According to security sources, Jordan has witnessed a rise in attempts to smuggle arms across the Jordanian-Syrian border, with border patrols reporting [...]
MANILA: Philippine authorities on Wednesday urged Filipinos not to travel to Syria and reiterated a call for those already there to return, after the death of one migrant worker. Meran Prieia Montezor, 23, was killed by armed gangs on February 24 in Homs, one of the areas where rebels have clashed with government forces, as [...]
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