Tag: Syria

Albanian arrested for alleged Syria recruitment

Albanian arrested for alleged Syria recruitment

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2014 5:16 pm

More chemicals shipped out of Syria

More chemicals shipped out of Syria

Michael Corder · April 14, 2014 6:45 pm

In this photo released on Sunday, April 13, 2014 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian forces tank arrives to take position during clashes with Syrian rebels, near the town of Rankous, Syria. The seizure of the villages comes a day after Syrian troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Shiite militant Hezbollah group captured the nearby town of Rankous. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian troops choke off rebels north of Damascus

Albert Aji · April 14, 2014 6:37 pm

2 teenagers leave Austria, seek to fight in Syria

2 teenagers leave Austria, seek to fight in Syria

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2014 12:22 pm

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video provided by the Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and which is consistent with independent AP reporting, a man lies on the floor with an oxygen mask at a hospital room in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village, on Friday injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. (AP Photo/Shams News Network)

National Security

Official: US looking into Syria toxic gas reports

ALBERT AJIBARBARA SURK · April 13, 2014 6:02 pm

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video provided by the Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and which is consistent with independent AP reporting, a man lies on the floor with an oxygen mask at a hospital room in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village, on Friday injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. (AP Photo/Shams News Network)

Poison gas claims complicate Syrian civil war

Bassem Mroue · April 13, 2014 12:40 am

Syria war deepens fears for Lebanon’s missing

Barbara Surk · April 11, 2014 8:36 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Flames rise from damaged cars at the site where two car bombs exploded at a commercial street inhabited mostly by members of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, in Homs province, central Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2014. Two car bombs exploded Wednesday in a government-held district of Syria's battleground city of Homs, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria death toll from rebel infighting rises to 68

Bassem Mroue · April 11, 2014 2:59 pm

National Security

Syria chemical destruction deadline still possible

Washington Examiner · April 10, 2014 4:42 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, black smoke rises from the rooftop of a building that was, according to SANA, attacked by a mortar shelled by the Syrian rebels in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Al-Qaida's leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, called on fighters to determine who killed his chief representative in Syria, a man many militant groups believe died at the hands of a rival militia, in a move that highlighted a conflict between rebels that has killed hundreds. (AP Photo/SANA)

Iran sends Syria 30,000 tons of food supplies

Barbara Surk · April 8, 2014 10:25 pm

In this photo taken on March 28, 2014 and released by a neutral activist youth group, About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Dutch Father Francis Van Der Lugt, 72, in Homs, Syria. A masked gunman opened fire on Van Der Lugt, a well-known elderly Dutch priest, in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, killing him instantly, a fellow priest and an activist group said. (AP Photo/About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply)

Gunman kills Dutch priest in Syrian city of Homs

Albert Aji · April 8, 2014 1:21 am

FILE - In this August 2, 2013, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem day, or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, said in interview with Lebanon's daily As-Safir newspaper published Sunday, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

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Hezbollah: Danger to Syria’s president eliminated

Washington Examiner · April 6, 2014 7:36 pm