August 5, 2013
3:51 am

Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview broadcast on al-Manar television on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/al-Manar television)

Assad: Crisis can only be resolved by striking terror with ‘iron fist’

Syrian president delivers national address slamming main opposition group as failure with no role in solving brutal civil war

By Times of Israel staff and AP

August 4, 2013
11:51 pm

A Kurdish female member of the Popular Protection Units stands guard at a checkpoint near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria, March 3, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Syria’s war splits nation into 3 distinct regions

Regime forces, rebels and Kurds each control territories, boasting their own flags, security agencies and judicial systems

By Zeina Karam

August 3, 2013
11:46 am

Syrian rebels run during heavy clashes with soldiers loyal to President Bashar Assad, in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, in July 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian rebels seize arms depot near Damascus

Groups reportedly capture anti-tank weapons and ground-to-ground missiles; UN: 400,000 people in imminent danger in Homs

By Times of Israel staff and AP

August 3, 2013
10:50 am

Portrait of Father Paolo Dall'Oglio SJ, founder of the Community al-Khalil in Deir Mar Musa, Syria, taken in the premises of the Community's new monastery Deir Mariyam al-Adhra in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Fritzbokern, Wikipedia)

Syrian opposition urges release of Catholic priest

Paolo Dall’Oglio, Italian Jesuit and peace activist, disappeared Monday while visiting al-Qaeda-linked militants in Raqaa

August 1, 2013
6:00 pm

An explosion in the central Syrian city of Homs, August 1, 2013 (photo credit: YouTube screen cap, Baynetna News)

Explosions rock regime districts in Syrian city

Blasts in central Homs may have been caused by a rocket that struck an army weapons depot

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue

July 29, 2013
9:12 am

A Street Called Straight in the Old City of Damascus in 2011 (photo credit: CC BY Bryn Pinzgauer/Flickr)

A link straight to Syria’s ancient past endures as war creeps closer

From the web NY Times: In the old city of Damascus, an ancient thoroughfare called Straight associated with the birth of Christianity feels the effects from years of war

July 27, 2013
7:15 pm

Khaled Ibn El-Walid Mosque, in northern Homs (photo credit: Wikimedia commons CC BY-SA 3.0, NouraRaslan)

Syrian troops capture historic mosque in Homs

Army deals symbolic blow to opposition forces who had been in control of the 13th century landmark for more than a year

By Bassem Mroue

July 27, 2013
6:01 pm

Syrian refugee men stop water from entering their tents, at a temporary refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria, Lebanon, January 7, 2013, (photo credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Growing number of Syrian refugees put Lebanon on edge

Officials resist UN drive to elevate living conditions in camps, fearing asylum seekers will never return to their home country

By Barbara Surk

July 27, 2013
3:54 pm

A Syrian victim who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receives treatment by doctors at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, March 19 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syria says agreement reached on UN chemical probe

Inspectors limited to investigating alleged attack by rebels in Khan al-Assal

By Barbara Surk

July 25, 2013
6:58 pm

Illustrative photo of a car bombing in Syria (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Car bomb kills 10, wounds 62 in Damascus suburb

UN head says more than 100,000 have been killed in conflict; Syrian government slams US plans to arm rebels

By Albert Aji

July 23, 2013
7:36 pm

Columns of smoke billow above houses as a result of heavy bombing in Damascus, Syria, Monday July 22, 2013. (photo credit: Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels welcome Hezbollah terror designation

Opposition forces want leaders of terror group prosecuted for siding with Assad; Damascus condemns EU move

By Bassem Mroue

July 22, 2013
4:10 pm

Syrian rebels capture key village near Aleppo

Victory comes as opposition forces suffer heavy losses in Damascus fighting

July 16, 2013
8:51 pm

A Syrian rebel fires his weapon in Damascus, Syria, Friday, June 21 (photo credit: AP/Ugarit News)

UN: Some 5,000 Syrians killed every month

At least 6.8 million residents in the civil war-torn country require urgent humanitarian assistance

By Edith M. Lederer

July 14, 2013
1:53 pm

Black smoke rises from buildings near a mosque from purported forces shelling in Homs, Syria on July 11, 2012. (photo credit: Shaam News Network/AP)

200 civilians trapped in Syrian mosque

Opposition calls on Assad to ‘immediately release’ noncombatants trapped in a Damascus suburb as fighting rages outside

July 11, 2013
4:33 am

Syrian refugees shelter in a two-story wedding ceremony hall in the Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the border with Syria, Sunday, May 12, 2013, (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Syrians struggle to find festive mood this Ramadan

War-ravaged infrastructure along with souring prices leave refugees and citizens in rebel-held towns begging for food

By Albert Aji and Diaa Hadid

Topic: Damascus