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Reuters 06 Jan 2013
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made his first public appearance in months on Sunday, calling for a "full...
محمد الظواهري، شقيق الرجل الثاني في تنظيم «القاعدة» أيمن الظواهري.
Egypt Independent 05 Jan 2013
Mohamed al-Zawahri, the brother of Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri, has denied reports of his arrest in Syria. Zawahri...
Reuters 04 Jan 2013
Syria on Friday said a car bomb at a crowded petrol station in Damascus on Thursday night was set off by "...
Reuters 29 Dec 2012
MOSCOW — The international mediator seeking peace in Syria warned of "hell" if no deal is struck to end...
File photo of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a TV interview on the Syrian state TV, Damascus, 21 August, 2011.
AFP 29 Dec 2012
Russia said Saturday there was still a chance of finding a political solution to the Syrian conflict but warned that...
Reuters 29 Dec 2012
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy said on Saturday his country supported the Syrian revolution and that President Bashar...
Residents rest in a shelter in the Baba Amro district of Homs in this February 8, 2012 file photo. Struggling to survive after two weeks of withering bombardment by Syrian forces, people in Baba Amro are packed four or five families to a house, relying on collected rain water and watching their wounded friends and relatives die for lack of medicines, residents say.
AFP 26 Dec 2012
More than 45,000 people have been killed in Syria since the outbreak in March 2011 of an anti-regime revolt that became...
NATO foreign ministers meet at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels 4 December 2012. NATO foreign ministers will agree on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to beef up Turkey's air defenses and calm Turkey's fears that it could come under missile attack, possibly with chemical weapons, from Syria, diplomats said.
Reuters 24 Dec 2012
Syria special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi discussed solving the country's conflict with President Bashar al-Assad on...
Syrian Christians decorate Christmas tree
AFP 23 Dec 2012
Festive spirit is a distant memory for Syria's Christian minority as it faces a second Christmas in the grip of...
Virginie Nguyen 23 Dec 2012
ALEPPO — At one of the gates of a major infantry academy at the northern entrance of Aleppo — also known as...