Aljazeera.com | Can refugees return to Syria, as many want them to? Aljazeera.com It is indescribably devastating to watch as the international community intensifies its push to normalise the occupied, murderous regime of Bashar al-Assad. Major players in Syria are using Syrian lives as leverage and to signal they've had enough of ... Russia to stay in Syria for another half a century as Putin signs air base deal with Assad regime |
Washington Post | The Latest: Al-Qaida in Syria nabs 3 Hezbollah fighters Washington Post BEIRUT — The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):. 8:15 p.m.. A Syrian affiliate of al-Qaida says it has captured three fighters of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in the Arsal region along the Syrian-Lebanese ... Exchange of bodies ahead of Syria-Lebanon border plan 8000 to leave Syria-Lebanon border zone as ceasefire deal advances Hezbollah, Al-Nusra exchange bodies in Syria-Lebanon border truce |
New York Times | Russia Showcases Global Ambitions With Military Parades, One in Syria New York Times The parades of ships, submarines and aircraft were held at Russian naval bases in Sevastopol, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and at Tartus in Syria, where Russia is expanding its military presence. The main parade took place in St ... |
The Sun | British jihadi widow Sally Jones is being stopped from fleeing Syria by brainwashed 12-year-old son Jo-Jo The Sun The boy, renamed Ham-za by IS, has been indoctrinated by the fanatics — and is rumoured to have executed prisoners. A jihadi wife who fled Raqqa has lifted the lid on life in Syria, after sharing a house with other UK brides including Manchester ... Escaped Isis bride lifts lid on British runaways living in Syria ISIS fighter's bride reveals horror of life in the 'caliphate' Escaped Daesh bride reveals what life was like in Syria's 'Little Britain' |
Wall Street Journal (subscription) | Putin's Advances in Syria Wall Street Journal (subscription) But a more important thumb in the eye of the Trump Administration came last week as Mr. Putin moved to consolidate Russia's strategic gains in Syria. On Wednesday Mr. Putin ratified a 49-year lease on Hmeymim air base, near the coastal Syrian town of ... |
Fox News | ISIS, squeezed out of Iraq and Syria, now 'regrouping' in Libya, analysts say Fox News The terrorist army has, in Iraq and Syria, used oil fields as a means to fund its barbaric reign. While more fighters are now expected to flow into Libya as the pressure on Iraq and Syria mounts, exactly how big the ISIS ranks in Libya are at present ... |
Reuters | At historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost Reuters ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner's widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria. Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the Baron played host to ... |
Manchester Evening News | Mum describes her life living in fear in Syria with 'terror twins' who fled Chorlton Manchester Evening News Islam Mitat, 23, told in an interview how she was taken to Syria against her will by her then husband via Turkey and ended up living in the besieged town of Raqqa in the same house as Salma Halane, who had married her husband's brother, an ISIS fighter. |
Los Angeles Times | Syrian comedy troupe's brand of satire fails to amuse Assad government Los Angeles Times Every time he gets the chance, Ayham Hilal, an Internet cafe proprietor in the Syrian city of Saraqeb, squeezes into a small community center with about 200 fellow theatergoers and loses himself in a comedy show. The sketches are productions of an ... |
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty | Russia's RT Network Says Its Journalist Killed In Syria RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Russia's state-funded international network RT says one of its correspondents has been killed in shelling by Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria. The network said on July 30 that Khaled Alkhateb, 25, was killed while reporting earlier that day on the ... Russia's RT says reporter killed in Syria Journalist working with RT Arabic killed in Homs province of Syria during ISIS shelling Russia's RT reporter killed by IS shelling in Syria |