Tag: Syria

Syrians walk on a street decorated with campaign posters of the June 3 presidential election in Damascus, Syria, Monday, May 12, 2014. The Arabic, top center, reads, "Let's fight corruption, Hassan al-Nouri, June 4, 2014." The one, center, reads, "Damascus spreads flowers for the loyal Bashar." On billboards and in posters taped to car windows, new portraits of President Bashar Assad filled the streets of Damascus on Sunday as Syria officially opened its presidential campaign despite a crippling civil war that has devastated the country and left large chunks of territory outside of government control. Assad faces two other candidates in the race: Maher Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri, both members of the so-called internal opposition tolerated by the government. (AP Photo)

Battles rage in eastern Syria, activists say

Bassem Mroue · May 12, 2014 6:41 pm

Residents return to the al-Hamidiyeh neighborhood of Homs, Syria, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Thousands of Syrians streamed into war-battered parts of the central city of Homs for the first time in nearly two years Saturday, many making plans to move back just days after rebels surrendered their strongholds to pro-government forces. The surrender deal is widely seen as a victory for Assad weeks ahead of a presidential election on June 3 that he is expected to win, giving him a mandate to continue his violent crackdown on rebels in the Syrian civil war, which activists say has killed more than 150,000 people. (AP Photo)

Thousands of Syrians enter Homs after rebels leave

ALBERT AJIDIAA HADID · May 10, 2014 7:08 pm

Syrian civilians fill a city square as they return to Homs, Syria on Friday, May 9, 2014. Bulldozers cleared rubble Friday from the streets of battle-scarred districts in the central Syrian city after government troops entered the last rebel-held neighborhoods as part of an agreement that also granted opposition fighters safe exit from the city. (AP Photo)

Syrians return to damaged homes after rebels leave

Washington Examiner · May 9, 2014 4:52 pm

This image made from amateur video posted by Shaam News Network (SNN), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows an explosion that destroyed the Carlton Hotel in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, May 8, 2014. The rebel-claimed bombing Thursday in the northern Syrian city leveled the once luxurious hotel near the ancient Citadel that government troops used as a military base, causing multiple casualties, activists and militants said.(AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Rebels level historic Aleppo hotel in Syria

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2014 7:16 pm

Syrian opposition: Weapons needed to battle Assad

Deb Riechmann · May 7, 2014 6:43 pm

In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels board a bus to leave Homs, Syria, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces. The exit of some 1,200 fighters and civilians will mark a de facto end of the rebellion in the battered city, which was one of the first places to rise up against President Bashar Assad's rule, earning it the nickname of "capital of the revolution."(AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP Video)

Rebels evacuating strongholds in Syria’s Homs

Bassem Mroue · May 7, 2014 6:05 pm

Obama to meet with Syrian opposition leader

Obama to meet with Syrian opposition leader

JULIE PACEMATTHEW LEE · May 6, 2014 7:00 pm

Local al-Qaida leader in Syria killed in blast

Diaa Hadid · May 6, 2014 6:26 pm

In this Sunday, May 4, 2014 photo, a musician plays harp during a practice at art school which adjoins the Damascus Opera House in Damascus Syria. Two students were killed and five others were wounded when a mortar landed outside the Opera building in April 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Damascus opera suffers under mortar strikes

Dusan Stojanovic · May 6, 2014 4:15 pm

US upgrades status of Syrian opposition offices

US upgrades status of Syrian opposition offices

Matthew Lee · May 5, 2014 7:23 pm

This Sunday, May 4, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian men carrying the body of a man who was killed by a government forces airstrike, in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian state media say on Monday, May 5, 2014 rockets have slammed into a government-held district in the northern city of Aleppo, killing many people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syria clashes kill 21 rebels in Aleppo province

Barbara Surk · May 5, 2014 4:27 pm

This photo made on Thursday, May 1, 2014, shows Crac des Chevaliers, top center, the world's best preserved medieval Crusader castle, above the destroyed Sunni village of Hosn in Syria. The village was destroyed in fighting between the government and rebel forces while the castle, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, also has been damaged over the past two years. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Syria’s historic Crusader castle damaged by war

Dusan Stojanovic · May 5, 2014 4:03 pm