Tag Archives: Syria

A suicide car bomber killed 16 people in central Damascus. Syrian rebels and the Kurdish YPG militia are said to be fighting together against the regime in Aleppo. A UN team is waiting for the go-ahead to examine allegations of chemical weapons use. A Syrian rights group said nearly 9,000 government-allied troops have died in […]

A Syrian airstrike killed at least 15 people near an opposition checkpoint in Aleppo. Four Italian journalists were abducted by a rebel group, possibly Islamist and not part of the Free Syrian Army, near Idlib. A Syrian businessman issued a bounty for journalists from two news organizations he accused of anti-regime bias. President Assad warned […]

Rebel forces captured the Um al-Mayathen military post near the main border crossing into Jordan after heavy fighting. Jordan has doubled the size of its border security force in the last two days, saying it “can’t sit idle and watch al-Qaeda and other militants seizing control of its common border with Syria.” The Assad regime […]

Rebel forces seized a military base near Daraa after days of heavy fighting. The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s affiliate, claimed nine recent operations in Syria, including four assassinations of military officials and a rocket attack on a state TV station. Jordan and the US are considering the establishment of buffer zones for Syrian rebel […]

The regime is fortifying its headquarters in Damascus. Iraqi intelligence says al Qaeda in Iraq and the Al Nusrah Front are cooperating increasingly in Syria and that the two al Qaeda affiliates are operating from bases along the border between Iraq and Syria. March 2013 was the deadliest month yet in the conflict, with 6,005 […]

State media said rebels had set three oil wells ablaze in Deir al-Zor province in a dispute over oil. The regime and the rebels blamed each other for the deaths of at least 10 people in the town of Tal Kalakh in Homs. A car bomb in in Reef Damashq killed five rebels, and the […]