New York Daily News | Report: 2 Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria arrive home CNN (CNN) -- Two Spanish journalists held more than six months in Syria arrived home Sunday, Spain's El Mundo newspaper reported. El Mundo staff correspondent Javier Espinosa and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova embraced family and ... Two Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria come home Spanish journalists home after Syria ordeal Syria crisis: Freed Spanish journalists back in Spain |
Aljazeera.com | Turkey accused of sending fighters to Syria Aljazeera.com Syria's information minister has lashed out at Turkey, accusing Ankara of sending foreign fighters across the border to fight Syrian government troops in President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland in Latakia province. Omran al-Zoubi told the state TV ... Turkish military fires into Syria after rocket hits mosque Syria army retakes key post in Assad's home province Report: Syria deploys anti-aircraft missile batteries along Turkish border |
Center for Research on Globalization | Christians flee Syria's Kessab, Twitter cries atrocities, Armenia accuses Turkey RT The Syrian Army is trying to retake the Christian majority town of Kessab reportedly seized by al-Qaeda-linked forces. The attack made hundreds of ethnic Armenians flee and caused international outcry with Armenia blaming Turkey for supporting extremists. “Humanitarian War” on Syria: Al-Qaeda Flag Now Flies on the Mediterranean ... Praying for Armenians in Syria US, Russia Voice Concern Over Embattled Armenian Town In Syria |
Kardashian Butts Into Syria Mess Daily Beast On Twitter, she made what seemed like a simple cry to save the citizens of Kessab, a town in Syria that's been the scene of intense fighting in recent days. The tweet was even welcomed by one of the country's main rebel groups. But, as with all things ... |
RT (blog) | Turkish conspiracy to provoke Syria war 'unlikely' to go as planned now RT (blog) Turkey's plan, recently leaked to the media, to stage an attack in Syria to trigger a military intervention was most likely being pushed forward and backed by the US, still desperate to depose President Assad, political analyst Lew Rockwell told RT. RT ... |
Border province punishes Turkey's policy on Syria in polls Reuters Erdogan has strongly backed opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since civil war erupted in 2011. Turkey opened its border to let in 900,000 Syrian refugees, built camps to house them and gave free passage into Syria for the armed fighters ... |
How US can help Syria CNN (blog) Editor's note: Faysal Itani is a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. The views expressed are the writer's own. Three years into Syria's civil war, the United States has demanded the regime shut down its U ... |
Syria's Refugee Soccer Starlets Daily Beast Syrian refugee kids who've fled into exile in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon are, in some ways, among the lucky ones: they're largely safe from the relentless killing, but the grinding uncertainty of displacement and haunting memories of the 140,000 slain ... |
Naharnet | How Syria's civil war threatens Lebanon's fragile peace Los Angeles Times Three years into the Syrian civil war, neighboring Lebanon is fraying at the seams. Over the last year, as Lebanese Sunni Muslim jihadis and their counterparts in the Shiite militia Hezbollah fought each other in Syria, at least 16 car bombs detonated ... Spanish journalists freed in Syria as conflict spreads Syria rebels lick their wounds in Lebanon border town Car bomb targets Lebanon army near Syria border |
The Guardian | Spanish journalists freed in Syria after six-month ordeal The Guardian Photograph: Reuters. Two Spanish journalists kidnapped in northern Syria last September have been freed by their captors, ending a six-month ordeal in the hands of an extremist Islamist group that continues to hold more than 40 other western hostages. |