03/04/2015

BEIRUT, March 31 (Reuters) - The Syrian army has secured a mountain range near Damascus in an operation against insurgents, Syrian state television said on Tuesday, tightening control over an area important to President Bashar al-Assad…

BEIRUT (AP) — A new video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday shows its fighters cutting off the heads of eight men said to be Shiite Muslims. The video posted on social media said the men were beheaded in the central Syrian…

BURAK BEKDİL Last week, a “rocket or missile,” probably a Scud, fired by the Syrian army, exploded in the Turkish border town of Reyhanlı, damaging a few buildings and military vehicles and leaving a 15-meter-wide crater,…

Elise Knutsen| The Daily Star   BEIRUT: Educating Syrian refugee children is both a humanitarian and security imperative, Education Minister Elias Bou Saab and a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday during a tour of a school in…

By Katarina Montgomery  In the face of Russia and China’s refusal to allow alleged war crimes in Syria to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC), one of the court’s former chief prosecutors has called for new ways to bring…

Reuters   TUNIS: Tunisia said Thursday it plans to reopen a consulate in Syriaand offered to invite the Syrian ambassador back to Tunisia in part to help track an estimated 3,000 Tunisian militants fighting in Iraqand Syria. Last…

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States has admitted 648 refugees from Syria's civil war and expects to allow in several thousand more, a U.S. official said on Thursday. The 648 had been selected from 11,000 cases referred to the United…

AP - Members of the U.N. Security Council have called on the global chemical weapons watchdog to investigate the latest allegations of the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon in Syria. The current council president, Jordanian Ambassador…

Canadian jets have not yet flown over Syria, but defence officials said Thursday in a teleconference briefing that will happen in a "reasonably short order." Brig.-Gen. Daniel Constable, Canada's commander of the Joint Task Force in…

Hama Province: Clashes are taking place between the regime forces against the rebels and Islamist factions near a regime checkpoint in the north of Hama with information about casualties on both sides. Other clashes took place between the…