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A Syrian pilot who defected from the regime's air force has used his aircraft to attack supporters of Bashar Al-Assad's government. Details of the incident were revealed by the...
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Official sources in Jordan have expressed the government's fear of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in neighbouring Syria. "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is concerned about the rise of Brotherhood...
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The official Syrian news agency (SANA) has accused what it called "terrorists" of firing a missile with a chemical warhead at the town of Khan Al-Assal in Aleppo. The...
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The Syrian Free Army (SFA) have said that Saudi Arabia has sent them military supplies to use in their fight with forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the...
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The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has accused Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Assad regime of using chemical weapons in a town on the outskirts of Damascus, it has been reported....
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Colonel Malik Al-Kurdi, the Deputy Commander of the Free Syrian Army, has denied claims that his group is conducting secret negotiations with officials from the Syrian regime, pointing out...
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Imad Deeman, the leader of the Al-Tawhid Brigade and a member of the Al-Tawhid Shura Council, said in an exclusive interview to Masar Press that: "A committee representing the...
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The Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad is estimated to have killed 10,000 women over the past 30 months, through "bombings, executions and torture". The claim has been made by...
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The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) announced on Tuesday that his fighters will not join the Geneva II conference in January and will continue their battle...
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Head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed al-Jarba, said that they would not go to Geneva II unless the conditions proposed by the revolution are accepted and the Coalition...
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Israel believes that troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and not global jihad groups fighting against the regime were responsible for targeting an army jeep with a roadside...
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A Saudi prince has criticised the lack of support from the US and Britain for the fighters of the Free Syrian Army. Turki Al-Faisal claimed that the conflict and...
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Two Syrian diplomats in Berlin have announced their defection from Bashar Al Assad's regime due to its "horrific crimes" which have taken the country to unprecedented levels of violence...
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Turkey has closed the Cilvegözü border crossing with Syria, which is also known as Bab Al-Hawa, after the Islamic Front, a union of six major rebel groups in opposition...
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January 25, 2014
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Wadah Khanfar
Many politicians and journalists are fearful of the future which can be facing the religious minorities in Syria following the revolution. Very often, these fears are expressed in the...
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January 25, 2014
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Abdel Bari Atwan
The Chinese and Russian veto of a draft resolution proposed by Britain at the UN Security Council which would give the Syrian regime one and a half months to...
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January 24, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
Estimates of the number of fighters in the Islamist Al-Nusra Front are numerous and no one can be sure of the correct figure. Perhaps ten to twenty thousand fighters...
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January 24, 2014
Armenak Tokmajyan
Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal in January 2011 that his country is immune to the so-called "Arab Spring" that had already started in Tunisia and...
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January 24, 2014
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Sophie Cousins
More than 50 doctors and health professionals have demanded that the Syrian government and all armed groups in the country respect the neutrality of hospitals, ambulances and patients, and...
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January 24, 2014
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Sophie Cousins
In a small motel room in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, within sight of the mountains of Syria, a former Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter sits with his...
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January 24, 2014
Akram al-Buni
The Syrian political opposition has various viewpoints on the Geneva II conference. Some are eager to participate and see it as a turning point that will place the Syrian...