The Scale Of Conflict In Aleppo, Syria Will Blow Your Mind
You wouldn't know it from the lack of media attention, but a major city is being destroyed in Syria. The country's largest city, Aleppo, has been under siege for over a month. It has emerged as the...
View ArticleSyrian Resistance Forces Claim They Shot Down A Military MiG In The Air Over...
While the U.S. and Europe mull what steps, if any, to take in intervening against President Assad’s brutal crackdown on Syria’s opposition movement, it seems as though the Free Syrian Army has ramped...
View ArticleFilm Leaders Demand Release Of Missing Syrian Filmmaker
More than two dozen leading film associations called early Friday for the immediate release of Syrian filmmaker and festival director Owra Nyrabia, who has been missing since Aug. 23. The statement...
View ArticleA Reporter In Syria Captured Shocking Pictures Of A Tank Blast
ALEPPO, Syria — Earlier this week, I was filming a feature on life on the Frontlines of Aleppo, Syria. I was camping out with the men of Noor Den al-Zenke battalion, who man a two-block stretch of...
View ArticleHuman Rights Group Says Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing the Syrian opposition of violating human rights laws and committing war crimes during the 18-month long civil war. They claimed that, "armed opposition groups have...
View ArticleSyrian Regime 'Will Deploy Chemical Weapons As Last Resort'
The Syrian regime plans to deploy chemical weapons against its own people "as a last resort", the former head of Syria's chemical arsenal has said in an interview with a British newspaper....
View ArticleThe Syrian Government Sent A 'Game Over' Text To Its Citizens Following The...
In a bizarre bit of insult to injury in the digital world, the Syrian government just mass texted the rebels, "Game Over." The text campaign comes in conjunction with what has been the bloodiest day...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Are In A Decisive Battle For Aleppo As The Regime Hits Back In...
Sieges crippling Syria's two leading cities intensified on Friday, as opposition forces mounted their most concerted push to take control of Aleppo and loyalist troops conducted a huge security sweep...
View ArticleSee What A Famed Syrian Market Looked Like Before It Was Destroyed By Fire
An famous souk in Aleppo, Syria was ravaged by fire today. The 14th-century marketplace was a UNESCO world heritage site that lived on as a thriving market and tourist attraction. But up to a thousand...
View ArticleRussia Ordered Syria Shoot Down A Turkish Jet, According To Leaked Documents
Saudi-owned news agency Al Arabiya are touting a massive leak of Syrian intelligence documents, and their first leak alleges to show Russia was the one who ordered Syria take down the Turkish fighter...
View ArticleBashar Al-Assad 'Betrayed Col. Gaddafi To Save His Syrian Regime'
The Assad regime in Syria brought about Muammar Gaddafi's death by providing France with the key intelligence which led to the operation that killed him, sources in Libya have claimed. French spies...
View ArticleIran Reported To Have Given Syrian Regime Up To $10 Billion
Today, Iran's currency plummeted to an all-time low: 32,500 rial to the dollar. The hyperinflation is thought to be the result of oil sanctions that could lose the resource-rich nation $50 billion in...
View ArticleMysterious Video Of US Reporter Missing In Syria Emerges
American reporter Austin Tice has been missing in Syria since mid-August. The 31-year-old Houston native had been reporting from the war-torn country for a variety of outlets, including McClatchy, The...
View ArticleCONFIRMED: A Top Russian General Was Killed By Syrian Rebels While Advising...
A Russian Major General who worked as a military advisor to the Syrian regime was killed by opposition forces in August, according to leaked documents published by Al-Arabiya. On Aug. 8 Moscow denied...
View ArticleTURKEY HAS SAID IT HAS STRUCK SYRIA IN RESPONSE TO MORTAR FIRE
Dramatic developments are occurring in regards to the crisis and Civil War in Syria. Earlier today, neighboring Turkey had said that mortars from Syria, which killed a mother and three children within...
View ArticleTurks Are Taking To Twitter To Demand No War With Syria
After allegedly being hit by cross-border mortar strikes from Syria, Turkey has responded by shelling a number of key sites in Syria. It's a tense situation, and despite claims from the US ("nothing...
View ArticleThe UN Security Council Gives No Statement On Syria-Turkey, Says To Expect...
The UN Security Council President, Germany's Peter Wittig, is due to give a statement to reporters tonight. Most people are assuming its a statement on the Syria/Turkey situation that happened a...
View ArticleTurkey Continues To Fire On Syria — Parliament Gives Government Military...
Turkey fired on Syrian targets for the second day Thursday after a shell fired from inside Syria killed five civilians and wounded at least 10 others in a Turkish border town, The Associated Press...
View ArticleFORMER AMBASSADOR: NATO Needs To Help To 'Contain And Isolate' The Chaos In...
Immediately after Syrian mortars killed five civilians in a Turkish border town on October 3, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson stated that the incident "added a new edge to the campaign...
View ArticleProfessor Explains Why Aleppo And Damascus Are Doomed
On Oct. 3 four blasts rocked a government-controlled district in Aleppo, Syria, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 80. Prof. Joshua Landis, director of the Center of Middle East Studies...
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