CNN | 7 White Helmets rescuers shot dead in Syria gun attack CNN The attackers also stole two vans, helmets and walkie-talkies, according to a statement from the group, which is formally known as the Syrian Civil Defense. The Aleppo Media Center activist group also said seven volunteers were killed in an attack ... Seven White Helmets medics killed in Syria's Idlib Seven White Helmets shot dead during dawn raid in Syria Seven paramedics shot dead in Syria |
The Guardian | We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled review – voices from Syria The Guardian Everyone talks about Syrians, but very few actually talk to them. Perhaps that's why Syria's revolution and war have been so badly misunderstood in the west – variously as a US-led regime-change plot, an ancient Sunni-Shia conflict or a struggle ... |
Washington Post | Official: Syria to facilitate chemical weapons team mission Washington Post DAMASCUS, Syria — An international chemical weapons delegation will visit Syria in the coming days and Damascus will facilitate its mission to uncover who used chemical weapons in the country earlier this year, a Syrian official said Saturday. |
NPR | UN: More Than 600000 Syrians Have Returned Home In 2017 NPR A rising number of Syrians who fled are returning to their homes, with more than 600,000 going back in the first seven months of this year, according to the International Organization for Migration. The U.N. migration agency says that number is ... Displaced Syrians heading home in larger numbers: IOM Aid Agencies Warn Displaced Against Premature Returns to Syria Over 600000 displaced Syrians returned home so far this year – UN agency |
Reuters | 'Logistics' hold up Lebanese deal for rebels, refugees to return to Syria Reuters BEIRUT (Reuters) - Implementation of a deal for the return of a group of Syrian refugees and rebels to Syria from Lebanon was delayed on Saturday, with a military news outlet run by the Lebanese group Hezbollah saying it was due to "a logistical problem". Hezbollah steers Lebanon closer to Syria, straining efforts to stay neutral Watch Russia's Su-25 jet in action against terrorists in Syria US-backed Syrian Rebels Seek to Reposition for Deir ez-Zor Battle |
CNN | US troops attacked in Syria - CNNPolitics - CNN.com CNN US troops who had been performing a de facto "peacekeeping" role in northern Syria came under direct attack multiple times in the last week, a spokesman for ... US Troops Take Sniper Fire in Northern Syria Flashpoint Town ... |
Wall Street Journal (subscription) | Seven White Helmets Members Shot Dead in Northwestern Syria Wall Street Journal (subscription) BEIRUT—Gunmen early Saturday stormed an office of a Syrian paramedic group that is active in opposition-controlled areas, killing seven of its members and stealing two vehicles and other equipment, the group and opposition activists said. The Syrian ... |
Aljazeera.com | Syria's lost generation: Refugee children at work Aljazeera.com Less than half of Lebanon's school-aged Syrian refugee children enrolled in school last year, and it is expected that at least 50 percent will drop out of classes by the time they are nine years old. Half of the remaining number will leave school by 10 ... |
Washington Post | This journalist imprisoned in Syria must be freed Washington Post But the pull of journalism was strong, and he left law school after his second year to find some larger meaning covering Syria's deepening civil war. In a Facebook post published just weeks before he disappeared, Mr. Tice left little doubt about his ... |
New York Daily News | Syrian rebels to pull out of Lebanon border enclave New York Daily News BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fighters from Saraya Ahl al-Sham, a Syrian rebel group, will start on Saturday to pull out of an enclave in Lebanon on the border with Syria along with some civilians, a senior Lebanese security official said on Friday. About 300 ... |