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Free Syrian Army says no ceasefire for Geneva talks
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November 26, 2013 05:09 PM
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BEIRUT: The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) said on Tuesday his group would shun a planned peace conference in Switzerland in January and would pursue its fight to topple President Bashar al-Assad regardless. General Salim Idriss's stance highlights how hard it will be for...
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Islamist rebels report capture of largest Syrian oil field
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November 23, 2013 11:15 AM
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BEIRUT: Islamist rebels led by al Qaeda-linked fighters seized Syria's largest oil field on Saturday, cutting off President Bashar al-Assad's access to almost all local crude reserves, activists said. There was no immediate comment from the government and it was not immediately possible to...
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Kurdish military gains prompt unease, questions over allegiances
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November 12, 2013 12:08 AM
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BEIRUT/IRBIL: With a string of military gains across northeastern Syria, a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn country, posing a dilemma for regional powers.Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar Assad and his father before him, Kurds view the...
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Syrian army siege east of capital tightens
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October 23, 2013 05:08 PM
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BEIRUT: Syria's army has sealed the few remaining smuggling routes into the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus, activists and aid workers said on Wednesday, tightening a chokehold on rebel-held areas near the capital.Activists inside the Eastern Ghouta region, a semicircle of rural towns outside...
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Car bomb, clashes kill over 30 near Syrian capital
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October 19, 2013 10:34 AM
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BEIRUT: Syrian rebels blew up an army checkpoint outside Damascus on Saturday and more than 30 combatants from both sides died in the blast and ensuing clashes, a monitoring group said.The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 15 rebels and at least 16 soldiers were killed.The...
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Syria rebels reject opposition coalition, call for Islamic leadership
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September 25, 2013 09:17 AM
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BEIRUT: Thousands of Syrian rebels have broken with the Western-backed coalition and called for a new Islamist front, undermining international efforts to build up a pro-Western military force to replace President Bashar al-Assad.Ever more divided on a battlefield where Assad's better armed troops...
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Syrian rebels plan raids to exploit Western strikes: commander
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August 31, 2013 02:01 PM
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BEIRUT: Opposition fighters across Syria are preparing to launch attacks that exploit anticipated U.S.-led military strikes, but there are no plans to coordinate with Western forces, a Syrian rebel commander said on Saturday. The United States said on Friday it was planning a limited response to...
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International arms experts leave Syria
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August 31, 2013 08:46 AM
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BEIRUT: U.N. experts arrived in the Netherlands with evidence gathered in their investigation of a poison gas attack in Syria, as the White House said President Barack Obama would make a statement to the public on Saturday on the Syria crisis that would not be an announcement of an imminent...
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U.S. readies strikes, Syrians prepare for attack
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August 28, 2013 11:45 AM
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BEIRUT: People in Damascus stocked up on supplies on Wednesday and some left homes close to potential targets as U.S. officials described plans for multi-national strikes on Syria that could last for days.United Nations chemical weapons experts completed a second field trip to rebel-held suburbs,...
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UN inspectors reach Syria gas victims despite coming under fire
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August 26, 2013 11:20 AM
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BEIRUT/AMMAN: U.N. chemical weapons experts interviewed and took blood samples on Monday from victims of last week's apparent poison gas attack in a rebel-held suburb of Syria's capital, after the inspectors themselves survived sniper fire that hit their convoy.Military chiefs from the United...
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Obama says no rush to costly Syria entanglement
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August 23, 2013 01:23 PM
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BEIRUT: President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a "big event of grave concern" but stressed on Friday he was in no rush to embroil Americans in a costly new war.As opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad braved the frontlines around Damascus to...
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Syria chemical attack kills more than 1,300
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August 21, 2013 10:54 PM
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BEIRUT: The men, women and children lying undisturbed in their beds had looked so peaceful they might have been just sleeping, Abu Nidal thought, as he and other rescuers dragged their bodies into the street. His was one of many accounts of a massive assault on the eastern suburbs of Damascus that...
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In Tunisian protest square, barriers reflect deeper divide
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July 31, 2013 11:03 PM
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TUNIS: The red Tunisian flags they wave are the same, but the divide between opposition and pro-government protesters in the capital's main square is much wider than the 150-metre gap between barriers put there to separate them.Nearly two years after Tunisians came together to remove the...
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Kurds free Qaeda-linked rebel commander in Syria after clashes
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July 21, 2013 03:31 PM
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BEIRUT: Syrian Kurdish forces freed a local leader linked to Al-Qaeda as part of an agreed ceasefire to end fierce fighting with Islamist rebels in the northern Syrian town of Tel Abyad on Sunday, activists said. In return, Islamist rebels have promised to release hundreds of Kurds taken hostage...
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Islamist-Kurdish fighting spreads in rebel-held Syria
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July 21, 2013 09:19 AM
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BEIRUT: Clashes between Islamist rebel forces and Kurdish militias spread to a second Syrian province on Saturday, activists said, as factional tensions rose in the north of the country. The fighting is further evidence that the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule has...
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