Cairo: An online video released Tuesday purported to show the Islamic State group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive a $200 million ransom in the next 72 hours.The video, identified as being
Washington: For the United States, Syria's civil war is threatening to start hitting closer to home.Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are faltering. President Bashar Assad's military is on the offensive and the
New Delhi: Syria is one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 29 journalists were killed in Syria in 2013 and 31 in 2012.
Bali, Indonesia : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the United States and Russia are “very pleased” with the progress made so far in destroying Syria's chemical weapons stocks.Kerry, speaking at a
United Nations: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday night to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 ½-year
Washington: The legislation, however, would “strictly prohibit American boots on the ground”.The Syria war resolution drafted by members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee permits up to 60 days of military action against the
Amman, July 14: Syria's main Western-backed opposition said on Sunday that 200 civilians are trapped in a mosque in a suburb of the Syrian capital as fighting rages outside between rebels and forces loyal to
Beirut, June 2: Syria's State-run news agency said the country's foreign minister has told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon that humanitarian aid won't be allowed into an embattled rebel-held Syrian town until the fighting there is
Beirut, May 30: Syria's main Western-backed opposition group says it will not participate in U.S.-Russian sponsored peace talks while the regime is carrying out massacres in Syria.Thursday's announcement came at the end of weeklong opposition
Baghdad, May 26: The Syrian government says it has agreed “in principle” to take part in an international conference in Geneva next month aimed at ending the country's civil war.Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem says
Beirut, May 6: A Syrian activist group says Israel's weekend airstrike on a sprawling military complex near the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 42 Syrian soldiers.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
New Delhi, Mar 2: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is sending his top aide Buthaina Shabaan to India to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and brief him about the ongoing conflict in the country.Ms. Buthaina, who
Beirut, January 29: Syrian activists say at least 65 bodies, some of them with their hands tied behind their back, have been found on a river bank in the northern city of Aleppo.The head of
Moscow,Dec 29: The United Nations envoy for the Syria crisis is warning that further deterioration of conditions in the country could send an unbearable stream of refugees into neighbouring countries.Speaking on Saturday after meeting in
Beirut, Dec 13: Syria's state news agency said on Thursday that a bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed 16 people, at least half of them women and children.The Deputy Foreign Minister
Berlin, Dec 9: Germany's foreign intelligence chief says the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad won't survive, but it's impossible to say how long it will hang on.The head of the Federal Intelligence Service, Gerhard
Beirut, Dec 4: Syrian forces fired artillery at rebel targets in and around Damascus on Tuesday as the country's civil war closed in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power and the international community grew
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