clashes in Alippo
Aleppo province: Clashes broke out between YPG fighters and the ISIS in the areas in between the Jandeiras suburb of Reef Aleppo and the Ataman area of Reef Idlib which led the death of the ISIS Emir of Aleppo (of a Emirati…
2 children were killed by an IED attack on the al-Sabouniya
Hama province: 2 children were killed by an IED attack on the al-Sabouniya area of Hama city. Rebel fighters took hold of parts of the Souran city during violent clashes with NDF combatants, clashes led the death of 2 NDF…
Bashar al-Assad: US may attack Syria despite weapons offer
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has not discounted the possibility of a US military attack even though threatened action was forestalled when he agreed to give up chemical weapons.
In an interview broadcast by Venezuela's state-run…
Oil dips below $103 as diplomacy on Syria advances
Oil prices fell Friday, a day after the U.N. Security Council made progress in the quest to get Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons.
Benchmark oil for November delivery fell 34 cents to $102.69 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in…
U.S., Russia agree on Syria U.N. chemical arms measure
(Reuters) - Ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock, the United States and Russia reached an agreement on Thursday on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ridding Syria of its chemical weapons arsenal.
Samantha Power, the…
Syria chemical weapons: Kerry praises UN vote result
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a binding resolution on ridding Syria of chemical weapons.
At a session in New York, the 15-member body backed the draft document agreed earlier by Russia and the US.
US Secretary of State…
Bombing and injiries in Idlib and violent clashes in Aleppo
Idlib province: Areas in the Deir al-Gharbi village were bombarded by regular forces which led to a child's death and several injuries.
Aleppo province: Violent clashes broke out between rebel and regular forces in the…
More than 160 were killed in Syria yesterday.
The dead include: 44 civilians, 30 rebel fighters, 39 regular soldiers, 3 defected soldiers, 14 unidentified rebel fighters, 11 NDF combatants and 20 non-Syrian fighters. By province: Aleppo (9 civilians and 13 rebel fighters).…
Gordon Brown to ask for $500m for Syrian refugees’ schooling in Lebanon
Gordon Brown is to call on the international community to provide $500m (£312m) to pay for schooling for 300,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon amid fears that the number of displaced children could reach 500,000 by next year.
The former prime…
More than 400 Syrian refugees reach Italy by sea, one dies
(Reuters) - More than 400 refugees who said they were fleeing the Syrian civil war were intercepted near Sicily in the past 14 hours, and one 22-year-old woman died during the passage, Italy's coast guard said on Saturday.
A first boat…