Wall Street Journal | Hospital Hit as Fighting Flares in Aleppo, Syria Wall Street Journal BEIRUT—Renewed fighting between the Assad regime and rebel groups killed more than a dozen people in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday amid a flurry of diplomatic efforts to try to renew the cease-fire there. After meeting in Moscow with the U.N. ... Rebels launch assault in Syria's Aleppo, diplomats try to revive truce A Strange, Sad, Surprising Reality of Syria at War US and Russian officials will sit side by side to monitor Syria cease-fire |
New York Times | On Streets of Syria's Capital, Even the Sweet Is Sour New York Times The city has been largely spared from the war that rages elsewhere in Syria. Credit Declan Walsh/The New York Times. DAMASCUS, Syria — Adnan Gimaah was perhaps the sourest purveyor of sweets in the old souk of Damascus. If a customer questioned ... |
The Guardian | Help for Syria: the 'aid campaign' secretly run by the UK government The Guardian The unit sought to divert British Muslims into becoming involved in UK-based charities instead of travelling to Syria to join the jihad or become an aid worker. Its involvement in Help for Syria has been concealed from the public by the government. |
Business Insider | The collapse of Syria's ceasefire is really bad news for the fight against ISIS Business Insider Syria peace talks are deadlocked as the regime and the opposition remain unable to move past a crucial sticking point — the role of President Bashar al-Assad in the country's future. Negotiations appear to have fallen apart, and the ceasefire between ... The world has failed the test of Syria's revolution Report: ISIS struck deals with Assad on the battleground in Syria Quitting ISIS |
Telegraph.co.uk | German denies committing war crimes in Syria at groundbreaking trial Telegraph.co.uk A German suspected jihadist denied committing war crimes in Syria on the first day of his groundbreaking trial on Tuesday. Aria Ladjedvardi told the court in Frankfurt he had been forced to pose for photographs alongside the severed heads of two ... Germany's first Syria war crimes trial opens in Frankfurt |
Reuters | A generation of Syrian children who don't count Reuters Swaddled in a faded pink blanket against the cold, Nour is the first of her Syrian parents' three children to be born as a refugee. Her family fled their native Homs at the start of Syria's civil war. Crammed two to a seat in a bus, her parents and two ... |
The Guardian | How Britain funds the 'propaganda war' against Isis in Syria The Guardian The UK's propaganda effort for the Syrian armed opposition began after the government failed to persuade parliament to support military action against the Assad regime. In autumn 2013, the UK embarked on behind-the-scenes work to influence the course ... |
The Guardian | Mother who tried to move family to Syria ordered to give up children The Guardian The judge made the ruling after social services asked him to conclude that the woman's aim was to go to a “war zone in Syria controlled by Islamic State” permanently, that she was driven by religious ideology, and that she had placed her children at ... |
New York Times | Your Tuesday Briefing: Syria, Met Gala, Leicester City New York Times The U.N. envoy for Syria is expected to hold talks today with Russia's foreign minister as part of an effort to restore a fragile cease-fire. Russia is a longtime ally of the Assad family, which has ruled Syria for more than 40 years. Our reporter ... |
Albanian court jails nine for recruiting fighters for Syria Jerusalem Post Israel News TIRANA - An Albanian court sentenced nine defendants, including three Muslim clerics, to jail sentences of up to 18 years on Tuesday for recruiting people to fight in Syria's civil war. The sentencing marked the end of a two-year trial that has ... |