12/01/2015

AMMAN, Jan 11 (KUNA) -- A food and relief convoy has been allowed to enter Al-Qadam neighborhood, South of Damascus, under an agreement framework reached by Damascus governor, Commander of the National Defense, prominent figures in…

AL ARABIYA YARA AL- WAZIR It was Christmas Eve when I was in my car in Amman, Jordan as a young lady in a black Jelbab (Islamic long dress) came and asked me to roll down my windows. With a heavy south-Syrian accent, she…

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested a suspected supporter of the insurgent group Islamic State (IS) who was recently in Syria and raided his apartment in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, federal prosecutors said on Sunday. The…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Friday that 2,100 Syrians had died in the prisons of the Syrian regime in 2014. The signs of torture appeared on many of their bodies, the observatory said. The London-based SOHR…

The Daily Star   Beirut: Syria’s ambassador to Lebanon reiterated Sunday his country’s rejection of new Lebanese entry restrictions that went into effect last week. “I cannot find a justification to what is happening today, and…

The Daily Star   BAGHDAD: ISIS fighters attempting to retake a town in northern Iraq held by Kurdish peshmerga forces have killed at least 30 Kurds, an Iraqi military spokesman said Sunday. The battle for the town of Gwer…

Three small girls and an elderly man have died in Syria in the past 24 hours due to bitterly cold temperatures and a week-long storm, a monitoring group said Sunday. "A girl less than two days old passed away (Sunday) in the southern…

Three young girls and an elderly man have died in Syria in the past day because of the severe cold spill that has hit the country, AFP has reported. One of the girls was less than two days old and died in Firdous, a southern district of…

  Deir Ezzor Province: The warplanes carried out a raid on the village of al- Mre’eyyi near the airbase of Deir Ezzor with no information about casualties so far.   The regime forces shelled areas in the neighborhoods of al-…

Reliable sources reported to SOHR that U.S. and Arab allies’ warplanes carried out 20 strikes on local and rudimentary oil refineries in the two regions of al- Mazare and al- Shebli in the desert of al- Mayadin and in the deserts of al-…