| Video: Aid groups warn of growing Syrian refugee crisis |
 They're short of medicine, there's no electricity and the basic latrines are seeping sewage. But the continuing air assaults in Syria are forcing thousands of refugees to flee to makeshift camps on the Turkish border. Aid agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian crisis. Alex Thomson Channel 4 Europe reports. (Nightly News) |
| Op-Ed Contributor: The World’s Next Genocide |
| Syria’s Alawites and other minorities who have aligned themselves with Bashar al-Assad could face retaliatory massacres. |
| Turkish town on Syrian border deals with fighting, ethnic differences |
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| Pentagon Sees Seizing Syria Chemical Arms as Vast Task |
| Senior American officials say the estimated need is 75,000 U.S. troops, a number that calls into question whether any efforts to move such weapons could be rapidly thwarted. |
| Turkey Recognizes New Syrian Rebel Group as Legitimate Leader of Syria |
| The move gives a powerful boost to the group known as the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. On Tuesday, France also fully embraced the group. |
| Obama offers new Syria coalition praise but not weapons |
| Washington is not yet prepared to recognize the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as a government in exile, he says.WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday praised a new Syrian opposition coalition as "a legitimate representative of the Syrian people" but pointedly said Washington was not yet prepared to recognize the group as a government in exile or provide arms to antigovernment rebels. |
| Obama offers new Syria coalition praise but not weapons |
| Washington is not yet prepared to recognize the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as a government in exile, he says.WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday praised a new Syrian opposition coalition as "a legitimate representative of the Syrian people" but pointedly said Washington was not yet prepared to recognize the group as a government in exile or provide arms to antigovernment rebels. |
| Kilis Journal: Along Syrian Border, Lives Defined by War |
| Everyone along the Turkish-Syrian border, it seems, either wants in on the action or just wants it all to go away. |
| Jordanians call for overthrow after gas price hike |
| Protesters in Jordan have often lambasted parliamentarians, cursed the prime minister and called for the government to go, but they do not speak out against their king. Tuesday night they did -- rudely and loudly -- using the standard battle cry that has echoed from Tunisia to Syria:<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=nkoAevydEII:G3EFzZCBZjk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=nkoAevydEII:G3EFzZCBZjk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=nkoAevydEII:G3EFzZCBZjk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=nkoAevydEII:G3EFzZCBZjk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=nkoA |
| Syrian warplanes pound targets near Turkey |
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| Syria opposition considers unity amid reports of government airstrikes, rebel car bombs |
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| Terror Attack by Rebels Kills 20 Syrian Army Officers |
| At least 20 officers of the Syrian army have been killed in a terrorist attack against a military club in the city of Deraa. Two cars stuffed with explosives went in front of the building, causing the deaths and inflicting significant damage. A thrid explosion near a military position in the city has not caused any damage, report agencies. ... |
| Some 1,000 Syrian refugees cross to Jordan |
| (MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Some 1,000 Syrian refugees had crossed to Jordan yesterday (Friday) and were settled at the Zaatari camp north of the country, said an official here in remarks ... |
| Syria border fighting sends 8,000 fleeing to Turkey |
| The total of 11,000 who fled the country in 24 hours is one of the largest since the Syrian conflict began, underscoring the crisis for civilians. BEIRUT — Fierce fighting in a border town in northeastern Syrian sent about 8,000 people fleeing into neighboring Turkey over a 24-hour period, one of the largest single-day surges of refugees since the Syrian conflict began, officials said Friday. |
| Syria border fighting sends 8,000 fleeing to Turkey |
| The total of 11,000 who fled the country in 24 hours is one of the largest since the Syrian conflict began, underscoring the crisis for civilians. BEIRUT — Fierce fighting in a border town in northeastern Syrian sent about 8,000 people fleeing into neighboring Turkey over a 24-hour period, one of the largest single-day surges of refugees since the Syrian conflict began, officials said Friday. |
| Thousands flee Syria in massive exodus |
| Thousands of Syrians fled their country on Friday in one of the biggest refugee exoduses of the 20-month civil war after rebels seized a border town, and the United Nations warned that millions more still in Syria will need help as winter sets in. |
| Under pressure, fractious Syria opposition tries to unite |
| Syria's fractious opposition, under pressure from the United States and Qatar to unite, may agree Friday to form an inclusive new opposition body that would serve as a unity government if Bashar Assad falls. |
| Syrian Refugee Flow Escalates Sharply |
| Eleven thousand Syrians have fled to neighboring countries in the last 24 hours — 9,000 of them into Turkey alone — because of the civil war, United Nations refugee agency officials said. |
| Thousands flee Syrian border towns |
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| 8,000+ flee Syria in one day |
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| Syrian opposition gathers in Qatar as fighting rages |
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| Bombing in Syria capital injures 11; exiles plan for a government |
| Rebels appear to be stepping up bomb attacks. Meanwhile, divided opposition figures meet in Qatar to discuss forming a government in exile.BEIRUT — The latest in a string of bombings rocked Syria's capital, Damascus, on Sunday as deeply divided Syrian opposition figures outside the country moved toward creating a unified government in exile. |
| Bombing in Syria capital injures 11; exiles plan for a government |
| Rebels appear to be stepping up bomb attacks. Meanwhile, divided opposition figures meet in Qatar to discuss forming a government in exile.BEIRUT — The latest in a string of bombings rocked Syria's capital, Damascus, on Sunday as deeply divided Syrian opposition figures outside the country moved toward creating a unified government in exile. |
| Syria’s Rebels Discuss United Political Front |
| Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said last week that the Syrian National Council had outlived its usefulness and should be replaced by a larger umbrella organization. |
| On the brink" |
| (MENAFN - Khaleej Times) THE EQUATION of Assad versus the rest is getting horrific in Syria. Reports of mass cold-blooded murders and destruction have rendered the possibility of attaining a ... |
| 3 Syrian tanks enter demilitarized zone along Golan Heights |
| Israel filed a complaint with the United Nations, officials say, though the tanks are not seen as a provocation or an attempt to draw Israel into the fighting.JERUSALEM — Three Syrian tanks entered a demilitarized zone Saturday along the border with the Golan Heights, spurring Israel to file a complaint with the United Nations, Israeli officials said. |
| 3 Syrian tanks enter demilitarized zone along Golan Heights |
| Israel filed a complaint with the United Nations, officials say, though the tanks are not seen as a provocation or an attempt to draw Israel into the fighting.JERUSALEM — Three Syrian tanks entered a demilitarized zone Saturday along the border with the Golan Heights, spurring Israel to file a complaint with the United Nations, Israeli officials said. |
| Syrian rebels attack key air base |
 Syrian rebels attacked a military airport in the country's north on Saturday in a push to cut off Syria's biggest city Aleppo from Damascus and secure a strategic north-south corridor. |
| Syria Rebels Attack Key Base in Bid to Disrupt Airstrikes |
| Rebel forces attacked the Taftanaz air base early on Saturday morning in fighting with government forces that reportedly continued into the afternoon. |
| Three Syrian tanks enter demilitarized zone in Golan: Israel |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria on Saturday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. |
| Syria fighting rages on last day of ineffectual cease-fire |
| Government forces shell areas held by the opposition and a car bombing targets a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad, reports say.BEIRUT — Syrian government shelling of areas held by opposition forces and a car bomb in a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad killed and injured dozens of people Monday, activists and state news media said. |
| Syria fighting rages on last day of ineffectual cease-fire |
| Government forces shell areas held by the opposition and a car bombing targets a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad, reports say.BEIRUT — Syrian government shelling of areas held by opposition forces and a car bomb in a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad killed and injured dozens of people Monday, activists and state news media said. |
| Syria rebels, Kurdish militia discuss cease-fire |
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| Attacks Continue During Failed Holiday Truce in Syria |
| The declared four-day holiday truce in Syria ended on Monday much as it had begun — with airstrikes, artillery barrages and other firefights that made a mockery of the cease-fire. |
| UN Envoy Urges New Talks in Syria Despite Failed Ceasefire |
| Negotiations to end the 19-month civil war in Syria should continue, despite the failure of a United Nations-brokered ceasefire over the Eid al-Adha holiday, UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on Monday. "The situation is bad and getting worse," a downbeat Brahimi said after a meeting in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as cited by RIA Novosti. "The government says they are fighting terrorists and only terrorists, and that it is their duty to do so â€" to protect their people.... |
| Car bomb hits Damascus on last day of failed truce |
| Syrian jets bombed suburbs of Damascus and a car bomb killed 10 people in the capital on Monday, the last day of a four-day truce that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon acknowledged had failed. |
| Envoy to Syria meets with Russian minister after truce unravels |
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| Kurds get taste of freedom after Assad's troops flee |
 DERIK, Syria --In the Kurdish areas of Syria, people have wasted little time seizing on the opportunities a tentative retreat by President Bashar Assad's government forces three months ago has afforded them. The Kurdish language, which as little as two years ago was forbidden, is now taught in state schools. Kurdish police forces patrol the streets and community organizations have been set up to act as de facto government institutions. |
| Experts: Greece riskier for investors than Syria |
| An annual survey of finance directors from global business consultancy BDO finds that the crisis over too much government debt in Europe remains one of their key concerns - so much so that Greece is considered a riskier place to invest and set up business in than war-torn Syria. |
| Syria Warplanes Raid Damascus Suburb on Last Truce Day |
| Syrian warplanes bombarded a rebel stronghold on the edge of Damascus on Monday, the final day of a truce marred by air raids and fighting between the two sides across the country, opposition activists said. |
| Mediator: Syria agrees to Eid holiday truce |
 Syria has agreed to a cease-fire during the short Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which begins Friday, international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday. |
| Envoy Announces Tentative Cease-Fire in Syria, but Doubts Remain |
| Lakhdar Brahimi’s plan calls for guns to be silent on the main Muslim holiday of the year, but numerous do-it-yourself aspects of the plan immediately called into question whether it would quiet any fighting. |
| Mediator: Syria agrees to Eid holiday truce |
| Syria has agreed to a ceasefire during the short Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which begins Friday, international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday. |
| UN: Syria offers holiday cease-fire |
| After 19 months of incessant violence, the Syrian government has agreed to a cease-fire during the four-day Eid al-Adha holiday, which begins Friday, special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=c9sUb9d9-vM:81TFBLvoGO4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=c9sUb9d9-vM:81TFBLvoGO4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=c9sUb9d9-vM:81TFBLvoGO4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=c9sUb9d9-vM:81TFBLvoGO4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=c9sUb9d9-vM:81TFBLvoGO4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=qj |
| UN: Syria offers holiday cease-fire |
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| UN envoy: Syrian government agrees to cease-fire |
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| Syria Agrees to Cease-Fire During Eid Holiday, Envoy Says |
| International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Wednesday the Syrian government has agreed to a ceasefire during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and that Damascus would announce the decision shortly. |
| Saudi- IIROSA, OCHA, UNHCR discuss aid for Syrians |
| (MENAFN - Arab News) Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled their war-ravaged country to take refuge in neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey. Members of the International Islamic ... |
| Saudi-based Syrians to deliver sacrificial meat to the needy in Syria |
| (MENAFN - Arab News) A group of Syrian volunteers living in Saudi Arabia launched a charitable campaign to collect and deliver sacrificial sheep to Syria. They will deliver the collected meat to ... |
| 20 killed in shelling of bakery in Aleppo, Syria |
| More than 50 are injured in the attack in Aleppo by government forces, on a day that saw more than 100 killed across Syria, activists say.BEIRUT — At least 20 people were killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday when a bakery was hit by a shell, turning the bread shop into a bloodbath, activists said. |
| Op-Ed Contributor: Western Intervention in Syria |
| All the chaos in Syria would seem to bolster the argument for Western intervention. But the rebel brigades are often at cross purposes, creating a dangerous quagmire. |
| In Syria, more than 40 deaths reported in airstrike |
| The city of Maarat Numan has been the site of clashes and government shelling. In Damascus, Syria's capital, rebels claim responsibility for a car bomb.BEIRUT — More than 40 civilians, many of them women and children, were killed Thursday in an airstrike on the northern city of Maarat Numan, activists said, in another bloody day in Syria during which more than 200 people reportedly were killed. |
| In Syria, more than 40 deaths reported in airstrike |
| The city of Maarat Numan has been the site of clashes and government shelling. In Damascus, Syria's capital, rebels claim responsibility for a car bomb.BEIRUT — More than 40 civilians, many of them women and children, were killed Thursday in an airstrike on the northern city of Maarat Numan, activists said, in another bloody day in Syria during which more than 200 people reportedly were killed. |
| At War Blog: Syrian Forces' Improvised Arms: Desperate Measures, or Deliberate Aid? |
| According to conventional wisdom, pro-government forces in Syria should be well equipped by weapons from Russia and China and, to a lesser extent, Iran. But they have resorted to crafting weapons to complement, or perhaps even replace, their standard arms. |
| Syrian Military’s Bombing Attack Kills Dozens |
| Syrian military aircraft bombed a town in Idlib province, killing more than 40 people including many children, according to activists and graphic videos uploaded on the Internet. |
| Syria rebels carry fury born of marginalization |
| Most of the rebels fighting government forces in the Syrian city of Aleppo fit a specific mold: They're poor, religiously conservative and usually come from the underdeveloped countryside nearby. |
| US: Plane Grounded by Turkey Had Russian Arms for Syria |
| A representative of the US Department of State has supported claims by Turkey that a passenger plane recently grounded in Ankara transported Russian weapons for the Syrian regime. The Syrian passenger flight from Moscow to Damascus was intercepted and grounded by Turkish air force on supsicion it carried weapons for the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Although initial reports had it that the plane carried no weapons, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdgan later stated that illegally transported arms were actually retrieved. ... |
| Iran and Turkey Join Syria Peace Envoy in Truce Call |
| The new peace envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, said a temporary halt to the fighting would constitute only a tiny step toward resolving the conflict. |
| Syrian War Reaches Damascus |
| As his troops battled insurgents all around the country, Bashar al-Assad was determined that in Damascus, at least, he would preserve an air of normalcy, but such illusions are no longer possible. |
| World Briefing | Europe: Vatican to Send Delegation to Syria |
| The Vatican said Wednesday that it would send a high-profile delegation to Syria, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, to encourage a political solution to the war there. |
| Saudi- King seeks end to Syria carnage |
| (MENAFN - Arab News) Custodian of the Two Holy Mosque King Abdullah held talks yesterday with international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on ways to end the bloodletting in Syria, SPA ... |
| Syria’s War Edges Closer to Turkey |
| Turkish residents are witnessing one of the gravest concerns about the Syrian conflict: that it would spill over the border and become a regional conflagration. |
| Secret Israel-Syria Peace Talks Involved Golan Heights Exit |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel engaged in secret peace treaty discussions with Syria in 2010, but the Arab Spring intervened, according to an Israeli involved in the talks. |
| Syrian rebels seize government missile base |
| Government jets swiftly move in to destroy the missiles, a rebel spokesman says, but the incident plays into the fear that arms and chemicals will fall into rogue hands.BEIRUT –- Syrian rebels seized a government missile defense base near the northern city of Aleppo on Friday that had been the source of regular attacks on surrounding villages, activists said. |
| Syrian rebels seize government missile base |
| Government jets swiftly move in to destroy the missiles, a rebel spokesman says, but the incident plays into the fear that arms and chemicals will fall into rogue hands.BEIRUT –- Syrian rebels seized a government missile defense base near the northern city of Aleppo on Friday that had been the source of regular attacks on surrounding villages, activists said. |
| On Edge in Turkey as Syria War Inches Closer |
| A journey through the borderlands finds that the slow-boiling resentment over the troubles wrought by Syria’s war may be a mere prologue to the danger that lies ahead. |
| Opposition: Syria rebels capture air base |
| Syrian rebels captured an air defense base east of Aleppo on Friday as government forces battled insurgents on several fronts across the country, anti-regime activists said. |
| Witness: Turkey scrambles fighters after Syria airstrike |
| Turkey scrambled two fighter planes Friday to the border after a Syrian military helicopter bombed the Syrian border town of Azmarin, according to a Reuters witness. |
| Report: Turkey jets avoiding Syria |
| In a sign of escalating tensions, Turkey diverted its civilian planes Friday to avoid using Syrian airspace. The two neighbors have been engaged in a diplomatic tussle since Turkish civilians died in cross-border shelling last week.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=IC8bUhgqZ_c:zh1wqrmHRAw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=IC8bUhgqZ_c:zh1wqrmHRAw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=IC8bUhgqZ_c:zh1wqrmHRAw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=IC8bUhgqZ_c:zh1wqrmHRAw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=IC8bUhgqZ_c:zh1wqrmHR |
| Cave becomes classroom in Syria |
| Because of the civil war in Syria, students and teachers have deserted their schools and taken classes underground -- literally.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=rTQXY-a3ogI:IRUB-ACkZz0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=rTQXY-a3ogI:IRUB-ACkZz0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=rTQXY-a3ogI:IRUB-ACkZz0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=rTQXY-a3ogI:IRUB-ACkZz0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=rTQXY-a3ogI:IRUB-ACkZz0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a hre |