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Sources to Al Arabiya: 30 Hezbollah bodies arrive to Lebanon from Syria 29 Apr 2013 | 11:36 pm
Thirty bodies belonging to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah arrived to Lebanon from Syria, Syrian opposition sources told Al Arabiya on Monday. The sources added that Al-Quds Brigade commander, ...
Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis 11 Apr 2013 | 12:43 am
One day in the fall of 2012, Syrian government troops brought a young Free Syrian Army soldier’s fiancée, sisters, mother, and female neighbors to the Syrian prison in which he was being held. One by ...
Charities urge BBC to launch emergency appeal for victims of Syria’s war 4 Mar 2013 | 04:35 am
Broadcasters including the BBC are under increasing pressure to allow an emergency appeal for victims of Syria’s civil war. The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an umbrella fundraising body for B...
Editorial: Will limited US aid to Syria rebels hasten the end of war, or prolong it? 1 Mar 2013 | 03:26 am
Henry Kissinger allegedly said of the Iran-Iraq war that raged so bloodily in the 1980s that “it’s too bad they both can’t lose.” Though that’s far from the US position on the Syrian civil war, the t...
Syria: amateur photographers capture life inside war torn Homs 1 Mar 2013 | 03:21 am
A mosque ravaged by bombing, a hospital destroyed after months of fierce fighting and entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. These photos have been posted to this Facebook page called “Lense of a yo...
Missiles kill 141 in Syria, half of them children: Human Rights Watch 26 Feb 2013 | 06:42 pm
At least 141 people, half of them children, were killed when the Syrian military fired at least four missiles into the northern province of Aleppo last week, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The inte...
Blatter sends condolences after Syria youth international is killed 24 Feb 2013 | 08:25 am
The Fifa president has expressed his sadness at the death of Youssef Suleiman in a letter to the war-torn nation’s Football Association Sepp Blatter has expressed his deepest condolences after Syria ...
Syria peace talks effort stalls 24 Feb 2013 | 08:18 am
Fledgling efforts to promote peace talks in the Syrian conflict appear to have stalled, even as the death toll rises daily and the rebellion nears its second anniversary. The major exile opposition g...
Editorial: Syria demands a new policy 22 Feb 2013 | 05:29 am
Typhoid and hepatitis outbreaks are spreading. At least 70,000 people are dead, and there are 850,000 refugees. After covering the battle for Damascus for a month, my colleague – photographer Goran To...
Failed Services, Infectious Diseases Threaten Syria 22 Feb 2013 | 05:23 am
First there is the ongoing civil war. Now freezing winter weather is further threatening the health of hundreds of thousands of Syrians driven from their homes by the fighting and forced to take shelt...