News From Syria

Jul 27, 2015, SANA President Bashar al-Assad said that any political idea for resolving the crisis in Syria that isn’t based on eliminating terrorism is a meaningless idea that has no chance of seeing the light; therefore the priority is eliminating terrorism wherever it is found in Syria. In a …

Jul 27, 2015, What’s Left Below are excerpts from a July 26, 2015 speech Syrian president Bashar al-Assad delivered in Damascus. On the West’s double standards on terrorism [Western powers] call it terrorism when it hits them, and call it revolution, freedom, democracy, and human rights when it hits us. …

Jul 28. 2015, Press TV Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters have pushed ISIL terrorists from the northeastern city of Hasakah, according to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The ISIL Takfiri group “was expelled by the army from Zuhur, the last district in which it was present in Hasakah,” Rami Abdel …

Jul 2015, Crescent International This report is from an Aleppo resident whose identity is protected for the sake of his entire family’s safety and security. They are living through the daily hardships of life in an externally created war zone. Water and electricity shortages, NATO- and US-backed terrorists embedded in …

Jul 24, 2015, Manar TV The “International Media Conference to Counter Takfiri Terrorism” kicked off at the Opera House in the Syrian capital on Friday. Under the patronage of President Bashar al-Assad, the conference was attended by several prominent political and religious figures in the region. During the opening of …

Jul 21, 2015, Middle East Channel Syrian army troops are approaching Palmyra A military operation has been launched by the Syrian army to restore the ancient city of Palmyra that was taken by ISIL last May. The Syrian army is still on the skirts of the old city

Jul 21, 2015, Al Masdar News Moments ago, the Syrian Arab Army’s 63rd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division – in coordination with Hezbollah, the National Defense Forces (NDF), and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) – have continued their advance inside the resort-city of Al-Zabadani, capturing a collection of farms …

Jul 16, 2015, Press TV As the Syrian conflict continues, more families are forced out of their homes in the country. Along with establishing temporary shelter centers, the Syrian government has taken fresh steps to further alleviate the suffering of the displaced.

Jul 6, 2015, Press TV A number of foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists, who have been arrested by the Syrian army, have confessed that they were trained in Turkey by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Takfiri militants, who were caught recently in the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo, confessed in interviews …

Jun 28, 2015, Middle East Channel Military or Media War? Four years of war in Syria have passed… and while it has changed many of the country’s features, the unchanged reality is that the Islamist extremist groups leave nobody in peace, enacting a policy similar to that of George W. …