Conflict
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:30
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has claimed the upper hand in what he called a "turning point" in the three-year long civil war.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:27
The country has now delivered a bit more than 57 percent of its most dangerous, so-called priority one, chemicals, and 82 percent of less toxic, priority two chemicals, said Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the organization.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:18
The main armed factions number in the dozens but splinter groups run to the hundreds, holding sway over economic, political and social life.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 06:28
Syrian state television and antigovernment activists reported Saturday that poison gas had been used in a rebel-held village in the central province of Hama, with each side blaming its enemies for an attack they both said sickened more than 100 people.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 06:24
Jordanian analysts and Islamists estimate that 800 to 1,200 Jordanians have gone to fight in Syria, more than double the number who fought in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 09:03
The resulting message is "don't negotiate with the government, prevent any compromise. The government will be too weak to attack back," said Jason Pack, a researcher of Middle Eastern History at Cambridge University who runs the website Libya-Analysis.com.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 08:43
These Islamist movements use various methods to garner support, such as mass mobilizations, donating food and money to the poor, proselytizing and insisting on such Palestinian constants as the importance of Jerusalem and the right of return of the refugees. In general, they aim to fulfill the public’s wishes.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:40
Iraqi troops have since been surrounding Fallujah and shelling the city in an effort to dislodge anti-government tribes and insurgent factions including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:10
The clashes centred around the border town of Albu Kamal, from which ISIL was expelled from earlier this year, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 06:45
It was the latest episode in a relentless cycle of blood and violence that has gripped the country since March 2011, when the uprising against Assad’s rule began.