Residents stand in a damaged building in the Al-Sukkari neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria. (Photo: Zian Rev / Reuters via The Telegraph)
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April 8th, 2013
November 5th, 2012
October 10th, 2012
Opposition fighters gain ground in Syria
Syrian opposition fighters have said that they are close to capturing a strategic city in Idlib province. They also said that they were making another push for Syria’s biggest city, Aleppo.
Incredible footage from al Jazeera.
August 1st, 2012
In April last year Ahmad Mohammad left his village in northern Syria filled with its pomegranate trees, figs, and goats, and moved to Lebanon. He came back five months later with a certificate in mobile phone maintenance – a weapon more powerful than Bashar al-Assad’s helicopters and tanks.
While he was away Mohammad learned how to upload videos to YouTube – a website banned by the Syrian regime. “Nobody in Syria knew how to do this,” he said.
July 23rd, 2012
July 18th, 2012
Analysis: A deadly blow to Syria’s regime |
Bombing that killed senior Syrian security officials will breed more defections and mistrust at the highest levels.
July 9th, 2012
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June 25th, 2012
June 12th, 2012
Syria Conflict Is Civil War, Says Herve Ladsous, U.N. Peacekeeping Chief
“The 15-month-old conflict in Syria has grown into a full-scale civil war in which the government is attempting to recapture large swathes of urban territory it has lost to the opposition, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Tuesday.”
April 18th, 2012
Video produced by the wives of German and British ambassadors to the United Nations calls on Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to intervene and end the violence in the Middle Eastern nation.
“Some women care for style — and some women care for their people,” the video says.
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