March 2014

  ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – All Kurdish groups in the region must set aside their differences and unite to counter threats by Islamic extremists in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), said the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of…

BEIRUT — Syrian rebels seized control of a seaside tourist site by the Turkish border on Tuesday that allowed them a small foothold by the Mediterranean for the first time since the uprising erupted against President Bashar Assad, activists…

BEIRUT -- Hard-line Islamic rebels captured a small town in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border as part of their offensive in the rugged coastal region that is a bastion of support for President Bashar Assad, activists said Monday.…

CAIRO: Syria’s opposition fighters seized a Mediterranean coastal village on Tuesday as they pushed to consolidate their presence in a key regime bastion near the Turkish border, a monitoring group said.   The capture of Samra in…

Syrian rebels have seized control of a tourist site by the Turkish border that allowed them a small foothold by the Mediterranean for the first time since the uprising erupted against president Bashar Assad, activists say. The reported…

For the first time, rebel fighters have succeeded in capturing a village on Syria’s Mediterranean coast and battled with security forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad to hold the territory. After months of setbacks in central…

The crisis of the Turkish government is deepening. Only days before regional elections on Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Freedom and Justice Party (AKP) administration is becoming increasingly unstable. Last Friday evening, the government…

When a barrel bomb strikes the ground in Aleppo one of the few certainties is that a military target won’t be in the vicinity, according to a report issued Monday by Human Rights Watch. The New York-based watchdog used satellite imagery,…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed satisfaction with the progress in the operation to remove Syria's chemical weapons. Speaking at the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, Lavrov…

The first group of Syrian refugees has arrived in the UK under a government scheme to take in some of the most vulnerable victims of the conflict. The Home Office expects "several hundred" Syrians to arrive as part of the Vulnerable…