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Mar 10, 2015, Al Masdar News The Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) – in cooperation with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – has made rapid progress in the Al-Tadamon District after breaking through Jabhat Al-Nusra’s defenses and taking control of …
Read More »Syrian air strike kills two Islamic State commanders
Mar 7, 2015, Reuters The Syrian army has killed two Islamic State commanders in an air strike in central Syria along with at least 24 other members of the ultra-hardline group, a monitoring group said on Saturday. Syrian state media reported the death of one of the Islamic State commanders …
Read More »Syrian Army Advances in the South as Aloush Renews Threats Against Damascus
Feb 12, 2015, Al Akhbar The steady advances by the Syrian army toward villages in southern Syria allowed the return of Deir al-Adas, al-Danaji, Deir Maker, and the hills of Masih, Mer’i, al-Arous, and al-Sarjah to the control of the state. Meanwhile, Zahran Aloush has renewed his threats against the …
Read More »RT Arabic crew comes under militant fire in Syria
Feb 14, 2015, RT.com A crew from RT’s Arabic channel, together with a group of other TV journalists, came under fire from Al-Nusra Front militants near the Syrian city of Daraa. None of RT’s staff were hurt in the attack, though two members of a Syrian television crew were injured. …
Read More »Israel Strikes Syrian Territory
An Israeli army 155mm mobile artillery battery is stationed near the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on January 28, 2015 . AFP/Menahem Kahana Jan 28, 2015, Al-Akhbar Israeli aircraft struck alleged Syrian army artillery positions early on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, the latest in a series …
Read More »Terror attacks on Damascus, Latakia
Latakia resident Lilly Martin Sahiounie reported: “Latakia Update: Jan 25, 2015: 5:00 pm. 3 missiles struck Latakia, Syria. 2 of them hit the city center of Latakia, the traffic round-a-bout called Hotel Harroun. 2 persons dead , and 9 injured, some are children. 2 taxis were burnt up, and 14 …
Read More »Syrian priest raps Western silence after car-bomb kills 15 in Homs
Jan 23, 2015, Catholic Culture A Syrian Catholic priest has blasted the silence of the Western media after 15 people were killed, and 50 others wounded, by a car-bomb explosion in the center of the city of Homs. Father Hilal Ziad said that the January 21 explosion appeared to be …
Read More »Damascus: The Sole Resort for Medical Services in Syria
Jan 22, 2015, Al-Akhbar While the numbers of sick and wounded have increased during the Syrian war, the number of available doctors dropped significantly due to the security situation and immigration. The economic blockade has also had a major impact on the availability of medicines and medical equipment. Damascus In …
Read More »Nusra militants blow up 13th century Muslim tomb in Syria
Jan 8, 2015, al-Akhbar Al-Qaeda branch in Syria, al-Nusra Front, have blown up the 13th century tomb of a revered Islamic scholar in southern Syria, Syrian state news agency SANA and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, reported on Wednesday. The mausoleum of Imam Nawawi is in …
Read More »UN: ISIS depriving 670,000 Syrian children of education
Jan 7, 2015, al-Akhbar An estimated 670,000 children in Syria are being deprived of education after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist group ordered the closure of schools until the curriculum is made to conform with its medieval reading of the Islamic Sharia, the United Nations Children’s …
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