Read the full-text online article and more details about "Syria Has Signed an Arab League Initiative That Is to Allow Arab Observers into the Country, but Activists Say This Came on a Day on Which More Than 100 People Were Killed" - Cape Times (South Africa), December 20, 2011Cape Times (...
Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. As Assad resigned and fled Syria, rebel forces moved into Damascus as citizens celebrated there and in the streets o...
And its single largest source of foreign currency is earned by sending its people out of the country to work in the Persian Gulf. Article content How would an Israeli-Palestinian peace contribute to redressing any of those problems? How would such a peace end the v...
The new Damascus authorities can set their country on a path to peace – or plunge it deeper into turmoil More than two weeks have passed since Bashar Assad left Syria, yet events surrounding his departure remain shrouded in mystery. Questions about why it happened, who stands to benefit, ...
In eastern Syria, SANA raised the death toll of Thursday's airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition on the last pocket held by IS in the Deir el-Zour province to at least 62. The Observatory gave an earlier death toll of 46 including civilians and IS members. The U.S.-backed Syrian De...
The exchange between Syria’s al-Qaida branch and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has resumed in what will lead to the return of thousands of Syrian refugees to their country. Article content Some 9,000 Syrian refugees and gunmen were waiting to leave Lebanon’s Arsal region and head to ...
From an initial refugee population of about 750,000 people following Israel’s victory over several Arab states in 1948, the UNRWA now administers services to roughly six million Palestinians scattered in varying degrees of statelessness in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and in Gaza and the West ...
The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month have named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president in a push to project a united front as they face the monumental task of rebuilding Syria after nearly 14 yea
At the Lebanon-Syria border scores of families were returning to Syria Sunday morning, with dozens of cars lining up to enter. 4 of 27| President Bashar Assad has left the country for an undisclosed location, according to a Syrian opposition war monitor. The report came shortly after insurgent...
When the militant group pulled its forces out of the country to focus on its war with Israel, it left Assad exposed, experts say. Hezbollah said on Tuesday that it “will remain a support for Syria and its people in their right to shape their future and confront their enemy, the ...