New York Times | Dozens Are Killed in Syrian Violence, Even Amid Preparations for Peace Talks New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — At least 25 people were killed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, antigovernment activists reported, in the eighth straight day of intense government bombardment of rebel-held areas there, while a suicide car bombing ... In Syria, 'barrel bombs' bring more terror and death to Aleppo Syria keeps up deadly air offensive in Aleppo Syria facing extremist offensive: Assad |
BBC News | Russia flies lorries to Syria to move chemical weapons BBC News Russia has sent 75 vehicles to Syria to assist the international operation to destroy or remove its chemical weapons. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said 50 Kamaz lorries and 25 Ural armoured lorries were flown to Latakia last week, along with other ... Russia sends armored trucks to Syria to transport chemical arms On My Mind: Syria's Chemical Weapons Russia sends trucks for Syria arms removal |
Bulgaria, Unready, Is Poor Host to Syrians New York Times SOFIA, Bulgaria — During a recent visit to a bleak refugee center hastily set up in an abandoned military camp at Harmanli in southern Bulgaria, Iliana Savova, with the Bulgaria Helsinki Committee, a human rights group, shook her head in dismay as she ... |
Daily Star Online | Time to be bold and make peace in Syria Washington Post 26, the U.N. secretary general made another call for a Geneva peace conference on Syria, to be held Jan. 22. These calls have been issued since June 2011, but no belligerents have shown up because each has been allowed to define the preconditions for ... Carter proposes free elections, peacekeepers for Syria |
Press TV | President Obama's empty boast on Syria Washington Post IT WAS astonishing to hear President Obama, in the preamble to his end-of-year news conference last week, cite Syria as one of his foreign policy successes. “[J]ust as we're strengthening our position here at home, we're also standing up for our ... US backs 'most radicalized elements' in Syria: Analyst |
BBC News | Syria 'should answer' for Abbas Khan's death, PM says in letter to family BBC News David Cameron has written to the mother of a British surgeon who died in a Syrian prison calling his death a "sickening and appalling tragedy". The British prime minister criticised the "despicable treatment" Abbas Khan had received and said the Syrian ... Syria 'Must Answer' For Brit Surgeon's Death Opinion: British doctor's death in Syria no suicide, says former official Post-Mortem Due for UK Doctor Who Died in Syria |
The Daily Star | Air raids kill 300 in Syria The Dominion Post Syrian authorities say they are battling rebels who have controlled parts of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, and most of the surrounding countryside for the past 18 months. But human rights group have condemned the use of the improvised bombs - oil drums ... US condemns 'indiscriminate' Syria assault on Aleppo |
Social Engineering and Malware in Syria: EFF and Citizen Lab's Latest Report ... EFF More than two years into the Syrian conflict, the violence continues both on the ground and in the digital realm. Just as human rights investigators and weapons inspectors search for evidence of chemical weapons, EFF, and the University of Toronto's ... In Syria's Civil War, Facebook Has Become a Battlefield |
Syrian regime air raids kill dozens in Aleppo Aljazeera.com Syrian army helicopters have killed at least 56 people, including children, by dropping "barrel bombs" on the northern city of Aleppo, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sunday's air raids targeted Aleppo's Masaken ... |
France worries about jihadists returning from Syria USA TODAY PARIS — Thousands of Europeans have gone to Syria to fight for a variety of groups battling the regime of Bashar Assad, and intelligence agencies are increasingly concerned about what these radicalized jihadists will do when they return home. Between ... |