News From Syria

May 29, 2014, McClatchy And then there were 23. Just 23 Christians, most of them elderly, left alive in the besieged Old City of Homs when a masked gunman killed the beloved Dutch priest who’d consoled them during nearly two years of government bombardment and rebel-imposed isolation, when food supplies …

Jun 4, 2014, al Akhbar Bashar al-Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote in Syria’s presidential election, parliament speaker Mohammed al-Laham said on Wednesday. “I declare the victory of Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad as president of the Syrian Arab Republic with an absolute majority of the votes cast in the …

          Jun 4, 2014, Fight Back News Homs, Syria – In an emotional day, mixed with sadness for the loss of life and a celebration of victory, the people of Homs, Syria came out to vote in their presidential election, June 3. Outside many polling places, …

Jun 4, 2014, Syria News Massive demonstrations across Syria celebrating Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad’s presidential victory Damascus, SANA, Speaker of the People’s Assembly, Mohammad Jihad al-Laham announced Wednesday that Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad won the post of the Syrian Arab Republic’s President for a new constitutional term, having the majority …

Jun 3, 2014, Times of India On Tuesday morning, a 40-year-old woman called Ferial Mustafa whose son was tortured to death by militants in Syria cast her vote for President Bashar Al Assad at a polling booth in Gundanieh, on the outskirts of Damascus. She stood proudly beside Assad’s photograph …

June 3, 2014, al Akhbar Syrians lined up outside polling centers around Syria on Tuesday to cast their ballots in a presidential election that Syria’s current President Bashar al-Assad is expected to win. The first multi-candidate presidential election in Syria in more than 40 years is taking place after three …

Jun 1, 2014, Yahoo News (AFP) – The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said. The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq …

  Jun 2, 2014, Press TV [click HERE if above video does not load] At least 27 people have been killed in a shelling carried out by foreign-backed militants in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Some 80 more people were also injured on Monday after the militants fired more …

  May 31, 2014, Press TV [click HERE if above video does not load] Twenty people have been killed in mortar attacks carried out by foreign-backed militants on Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo. The militants fired 40 mortar shells on several neighborhoods of the flashpoint city, destroying many buildings. Takfiri …

  May 30, 2014, Press TV Militants from terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have kidnapped nearly 200 Kurdish civilians from an area in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that ISIL members abducted at least 193 …