12-year-old boy among 4 killed in Syria’s Tartous province
BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials ...
Syria is at a crossroads: It can return to violence or transition to peace, says UN envoy
Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...
Exclusive: Syria's sectarian violence reached capital, terrorizing Alawites, residents say
Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...
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Skirmish in Syrian Capital Raises Fears of Expanding Violence
By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon Gunmen attacked a position held by Syrian security forces in ... highly fortified Mezzeh district of the capital, Damascus. Clashes with government ...
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How Syria's sectarian violence spread to capital, terrorizing Alawites
According to accounts from 13 witnesses in Damascus, however, the sectarian violence spread to the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace.