News From Syria

Nov 6, 2013, AINA Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the largely Syrian Orthodox town when rebels attacked last month, are now returning home to discover the scale of atrocities in what is being seen as the worst act of anti-Christian persecution since the war in Syria began. The …

  ACN News: Tuesday, 5th November 2013 – SYRIA Suffering in Sadad: Bodies of family discovered in a well By John Pontifex HORRIFIC details are emerging of atrocities carried out in a Christian town in Syria, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed, including two teenage boys, …

Nov 4, OCP News Special Report by Mor Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh (Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs and Hama) Photographs from Mor Timotheos Matta Alkhouri (Metropolitan & Patriarchal Secretary) My brothers and sisters The peace of the Lord be with you: I present to you a glimpse of the events which have …

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Nov 3, 2013, Daily Star A leading Syrian rebel commander announced his resignation Sunday, in the wake of battlefield setbacks and infighting among rebel groups. Col. Abdel-Jabbar Ukaidi, the head of the Aleppo Revolutionary Military Council of the mainstream Free Syrian Army, also had harsh words for the international community …

Oct 27, 2013, al Akhbar Powerful armed groups in Syria said attending peace talks or negotiating with Damascus would be an act of betrayal. The joint declaration by the 19 Islamist groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad cast further doubt on whether the long-delayed peace talks dubbed “Geneva 2” …

Oct 24, 2013, RT.com Syrian Islamist militants have released a video of allegedly a Russian engineer they captured. The man says he will be killed unless exchanged for an imprisoned Saudi. The authenticity of the video has not yet been confirmed. The video posted online on Wednesday features a bearded, …

  Oct 17, 2013 The Syrian government has turned over to the United Nations a Canadian staffer who went missing eight months ago. The Canadian lawyer Carl Campeau went missing in February in the Damascus area of Khan al-Shih on February 17, 2013. Campeau was able to escape after his …

Oct 14, 2013, RT.com Russia’s Foreign Minister says Syria’s leading opposition group is refusing to attend peace talks in Geneva because Western powers are either unwilling or unable to persuade them to take part. Moscow and Washington are both staking a lot on the talks as a way to find …

Oct 15, 2013, Sana Prime Minister, Wael al-Halqi, stressed on Monday that the return of the displaced Syrians is evidence of their clinging to their homeland to contribute to the reconstruction process of the renewed Syria. In a press statement during his inspection tour in Jdeidet Yabous border crossing, al-Halqi …