The Guardian | California Man Arrested in Plot to Fight in Syria ABC News A California man who spoke of wanting to bomb the Los Angeles subway system was arrested near the Canadian border in Washington state and charged with attempting to travel to Syria to fight alongside Islamic extremists, federal prosecutors said Monday. California man arrested for trying to join extremists in Syria US man arrested 'on way to fight in Syria' |
BBC News | Lebanon Sends Army to Syria Border as Rebels Flee ABC News The Lebanese army sent commandos to the tense border area with Syria on Monday, bracing for another spillover of the conflict next door as Syrian rebels continued to flee into Lebanon after the fall of their stronghold to President Bashar Assad's forces. Syria 'recaptures rebel border town Yabroud' The Cost of War: Syria, Three Years On Assad makes gains on third anniversary of Syria's civil war |
The Daily Star | US Names New Special Envoy for Syria ABC News Ford, who also served as U.S. ambassador to Syria, retired at the end of February. Like Ford, Rubinstein speaks fluent Arabic and has served in numerous positions at embassies around the Mideast, including in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia and Syria. New US envoy for Syria pledges support to opposition forces as rebels lose ... Kerry says new Syria envoy faces "tough challenge" US names envoy to replace retiring ambassador to Syria |
The Daily Star | Syria: No end in sight Financial Times In another time or place, Abdul Razzaq al-Hammoud would be spending his days coaching football and teaching physical education at the Deir Ezzour secondary school where he once worked. Instead, the mustachioed, mild-mannered Syrian is a warrior in a ... What now for Syria? Three Years of Strife and Cruelty Put Syria in Tailspin Syria conflict: Key dates in the conflict |
NPR | Saudi Aid Boost To Syrian Rebels Puts Jordan At Risk NPR For months, a military stalemate has defined the war in Syria. Now, a new strategy is emerging as Western allies and Gulf states step up support for rebels in southern Syria. Along Jordan's northern border, Syrian rebels say they are unifying their ... |
Syrian Forces Seize Key Town From Rebels New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian government forces on Sunday swept into the center of Yabrud, a town long held by rebels near the Lebanese border, in an advance that appeared to be a significant blow for insurgents as the Syrian conflict entered its fourth year. |
The Daily Star | How Our Banking System Hates Sanctions - Even On Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Forbes A hubbub has erupted over the question of London's dependence on Russian oligarch money, how the UK banking system has grown addicted to such deposits, and how it compromises the West's punitive sanctions against Kremlinites for the invasion of ... The story of a Lebanese rebel fighter in Syria On the march with Assad's army in Yabroud, Syria Lebanon sends army to Syria border |
Montreal Gazette | Entire Generation Missing Out On School In Wartime Syria Huffington Post MAJDAL ANJAR, Lebanon (AP) — Along with some 20 other Syrian children, 13-year-old Anas braves rain, mud and cold to attend class in a tent pitched along Lebanon's border with Syria, the home of a Syrian refugee family that serves as a classroom for ... It's our duty to help the lost people of Syria Generation Missing out on School in Wartime Syria Syria's children - its future - are at stake |
Endless War? As Syria Conflict Enters 4th Year, Deadly Stalemate Favors Assad ... Democracy Now The conflict between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels seeking his ouster has just entered its fourth year. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says more than 146,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict began ... Aid officials call for swift cross-border access in Syria An infected victim of Syria's three-year civil war |
Lebanon on edge as ousted Syria rebels cross border CBS News A Lebanese army officer from a commando unit, right, gives orders to his soldiers after they blew up a bomb-packed parked car in a field outside the village of Fakiha, near the Lebanese and Syria border, Monday, March 17, 2014. AP. Shares. Tweets; Stumble. |