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Syrian rebels have issued a list of demands for the release of United Nations peacekeepers stationed on the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel. The 45 Fijian troops from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force have been held captive for five days in an unknown location. The rebels from the Nusra Front, which has ties…
Fighting between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and the opposition has reached a stalemate, and the regime plans on calling for a ceasefire at an upcoming conference in Geneva, Syria’s deputy prime minister has told the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper. In the interview published Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said that neither the opposition nor…
The Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for Syrian rebels and will weigh the merits of a less likely move to send U.S. airpower to enforce a no-fly zone over the nation ripped by two years of civil war, officials said Sunday. White House meetings are planned as Syrian President Bashar…
A video of a Syrian rebel commander cutting the heart out of a soldier and biting into it is emblematic of a civil war that has rapidly descended into sectarian hatred and revenge killings, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The New York-based group said an amateur video posted on the Internet on Sunday shows…
Syria’s government has withdrawn a significant number of troops from the Golan Heights, raising Western concerns. The redeployment of Syrian troops is the most significant in 40 years, the British daily The Guardian reported. Rebel groups have moved into the area, leading to Israeli fears that the rebels could attack its northern border. “They [the…
Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad’s forces pull back from a rebel-held village which has seen heavy recent fighting. The capture was announced in rebel videos posted on the Internet and confirmed on Wednesday by the United…
As we wound our way through the rebel-controlled neighborhoods of the decimated streets of Aleppo, I could hardly recognize what was once one of Syria’s most prosperous cities. This part of Syria’s second-largest metropolis, a town once storied for its ethnic diversity, was now a pockmarked jumble of cratered ruins, even as life in government-controlled…
The revolt against President Bashar al-Assad came within sight of his presidential palace on Wednesday as fighting erupted in major Damascus neighbourhoods for a fourth day and killed several key members of the inner ruling circle. Syrian state television said al-Assad’s brother-in-law and senior military official Assef Shawkat was killed and intelligence chief Hisham Bekhtyar…
