TIME | How Bashar Assad Is Trying to Win the Peace in Syria TIME Taking advantage of a ceasefire and a rare moment free from shelling, protesters reappeared on the streets in some opposition-held areas of Syria this week, demanding an end to the authoritarian regime led by President Bashar Assad. At one protest in ... One week into Syria cease-fire, Anti-Assad protests spread Syria's Shaky Respite For a Day, Syria's Cease-Fire Revives Peaceful Protest |
BBC News | Can Russia help build the peace in Syria? BBC News The human rights group Amnesty International says it has "compelling evidence" that Russian and Syrian government forces had "deliberately and systematically targeted hospitals and other medical facilities" in Aleppo in the north. But during our trip ... Russia and Syria may be deliberately targeting hospitals in Syria |
New York Times | Your Friday Evening Briefing: Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, Syria New York Times The partial truce in Syria backed by Washington and Moscow has lasted a week — and “dramatically reduced overall violence” in the country, The A.P. reports. Demonstrators took advantage of the relative peace on Friday, renewing their calls for the ... |
CNN | Syria reports nationwide electricity outage CNN Syria's power infrastructure has been damaged during the war, accounting in part for frequent outages even in areas that it still serves. Thursday's outage came in the middle of a two-week truce between government forces and certain militant groups ... Syria conflict: Massive power blackout across country Syria hit with nationwide blackout, state TV reports Syria hit by nationwide power blackout |
New York Times | An Old Wound in Syria New York Times Normally on Land Day, I would not have gone to school. In Syria, where I grew up, they usually let Syrian-Palestinians march to remember the day, March 30, 1976, when Israeli forces killed six Palestinians and wounded at least 100 who had been ... |
Times Higher Education (THE) (blog) | World insight: Syria is in Europe Times Higher Education (THE) (blog) Syria is in Europe, certainly according to the ancient Greeks. Europa was a princess from Phoenicia, an ancient civilisation in today's Syria (and Lebanon), who was taken by Zeus, the Greek “King of the Gods”, to the island of Crete, where she gave ... Turkish meddling in Syria will drag NATO to war for Ankara's imperial ambitions - German MP |
VICE News | The US State Department's Syria Hotline Staff May Not Speak Arabic — or Answer the Phone VICE News The US State Department has set up a hotline to help document reports of violence in Syria, but some of the operators working the phones don't speak fluent Arabic, and sometimes nobody answers the phone at all. The problem was first revealed on ... Syria civil war: Staff manning US ceasefire hotline 'can't speak Arabic' The State Department's Syrian Cease-Fire Hotline Has One Small Problem |
ABC Online | Syria truce: Civilians use ceasefire to resume anti-government protests in Aleppo, Damascus ABC Online For the first time in years, hundreds of Syrians nationwide have taken advantage of a nearly week-long ceasefire to resume anti-government protests under the slogan: "The Revolution Continues!" ... |
Wall Street Journal | UN Says Deal Is Near With Syria on Aid Wall Street Journal United Nations officials said they were on the verge of an agreement with the Syrian regime to get humanitarian relief flowing and to lift a ban on medical supplies to opposition-held areas, as Western powers raced to deliver aid while a shaky truce ... Jets strike outskirts of Syria's Douma for first time since truce: monitor Syrian war: Air raids hit rebel bastion in Eastern Ghouta despite ceasefire, monitor says |
Lincoln Journal Star | He's safe here but dreams of home in Syria Lincoln Journal Star Gabriel Jabbour and his daughter, Rula, embrace beneath the crucifix at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Omaha. Gabriel fled Syria after a warning that Islamic State fighters were planning to publicly behead him for leading a community of 700 Catholics. |