Syrian Christians

Jordanian writer shot dead outside court before trial over cartoon

Edit Topix 26 Sep 2016

AMMAN ... Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist who was a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was arrested last month after he shared a caricature that depicted a bearded man in heaven smoking in bed with women and asking God to bring him wine and cashews ... ....

Jordanian writer shot dead outside court

Edit Arabnews 26 Sep 2016

Attached Files. . ID. . 1474840098403225800 ... AMMAN ... Hattar, a Christian and an anti-radical activist who was a supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad, was arrested last month after he shared a controversial caricature ... The Muslim Brotherhood group warned against a flare up in religious and sectarian tensions in a country in which Jordanian Christians are a minority but wield wide political and economic influence ... Middle-East....

Ahrar al-Sham terrorists planning chemical attack in Syria: Ja’afari

Edit Press TV 26 Sep 2016

Syria has told the United Nations that Ahrar al-Sham militants plan a white phosphorus attack on civilians in order to blame it on Syrian government forces ... Addressing a Security Council emergency meeting, Ja’afari said the extremists plan to pose as Syrian army troops and film the whole incident on camera in order to falsify realities on the ground....

Award-winning Assad critic's passport confiscated in Britain

Edit The Oklahoman 26 Sep 2016

An award-winning Syrian journalist and prominent critic of President Bashar al-Assad says Britain's Border Agency confiscated one of her passports at the request of the embattled Syrian regime. Zaina Erhaim told CNN Monday that officials at London's Heathrow Airport seized her recently-issued Syrian passport upon her arrival early Friday morning and questioned her for 90 minutes in the presence of her 7-month old baby....

Can Russia and US reach common ground on Syria?

Edit The Oklahoman 26 Sep 2016

Top UN officials have separately described the Syrian regime's brutal offensive against areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo as "barbaric.". Following the collapse of a short-lived, US and Russia-brokered ceasefire, Syrian forces pounded rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported ... Child suicide attempts on the rise in besieged Syrian town ....

How the Pentagon Sank the US-Russia Deal in Syria – and the Ceasefire

Edit Antiwar 26 Sep 2016

The final blow apparently came from the Russian-Syrian side, but what provoked the decision to end the ceasefire was the first ever US strike against Syrian government forces on 17 September ... The Russians put great emphasis on ensuring that the Syrian army would comply with the demilitarization plan ... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the Syrian army had withdrawn from the road. ....

The first step to fixing Syria? Arming the Kurds: Editorial

Edit Penn Live 26 Sep 2016

Syrian Kurds have expanded the territory they control in the northern part of the country, and have retaken from Islamic State key cities like Kobani and Manbij. As a result, the Kurds are in the best position to mount an offensive against Islamic State fighters in their de facto Syrian capital, Raqqa ... Syrian Kurds' pivotal role in the fight against the Islamic State has the White House weighing whether to arm Kurdish fighters....

'Barbaric': UN officials condemn Syria's Aleppo bombardment

Edit The Oklahoman 26 Sep 2016

Top UN officials have separately described the Syrian regime's brutal offensive against areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo as "barbaric.". Following the collapse of a short-lived, US and Russia-brokered ceasefire, Syrian forces pounded rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported....

Heartbreaking photos show the aftermath of barrage of Russian-backed airstrikes in Aleppo

Edit AOL 26 Sep 2016

New images out of Aleppo, Syria, are revealing the horrifying war zone that so many Syrians are forced to face on a daily basis ... Graphic content / Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, retrieve bodies from under the rubble of a building following a reported airstrike on September 23, 2016, on the al-Muasalat area in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo ... (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)....

Syria airstrikes kill 85 people in Aleppo amid diplomatic row

Edit The Oklahoman 26 Sep 2016

Syrian forces pounded rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported ... Hundreds of airstrikes have pummeled the city, home to more than 250,000 people, since the Syrian government, backed by Russia, announced a renewed, "comprehensive" offensive Thursday following the collapse of a short-lived ceasefire....

85 dead in Aleppo airstrikes amid fiery words at U.N. over Syria

Edit The Oklahoman 26 Sep 2016

Syrian forces pounded rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported ... Hundreds of airstrikes have pummeled the city, home to more than 250,000 people, since the Syrian government, backed by Russia, announced a renewed, "comprehensive" offensive Thursday following the collapse of a short-lived ceasefire....

Building a life in Germany, a Syrian watches war at home

Edit The Oklahoman 26 Sep 2016

He can't stop, even though he feels helpless, following day by day the destruction of his home city, Aleppo, as Syrian government forces besiege its rebel-held neighborhoods ... He shares a Spartan two-bedroom apartment with three other Syrian men he met in the camp where they were housed when they first arrived in Germany ... On the table sits what is likely to be found at any Syrian home ... "She can be a Muslim or a Christian," he says....

Syria ready to support formation of unity government: FM

Edit Press TV 26 Sep 2016

In an interview with Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen TV aired on Monday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said the Damascus government has proposed a political roadmap that could put an end to more than five years of war in the Arab country ... The top Syrian diplomat said the truce deal brokered by Moscow and Washington two weeks ago is still viable....

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