Tag: Syria

A Syrian boy plays with a tank in the town of Azaz, north of Aleppo, on 11 August AFP PHOTO / PHIL MOORE
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Clinton’s visit to Turkey

A no-fly zone over Syria among the possible solutions

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Lebanese policemen stand guard at the entrance of a residential building where former government minister Michel Samaha resides in Beirut on August 9, 2012. AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO
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Former Lebanese Minister to face “terror plot” charges

The two time minister, who was arrested by Lebanese Internal Security Forces…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
A Syrian refugee walks after undergoing a medical check at a Moroccan military field hospital in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the kingdom's northern city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, on August 11, 2012. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI
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Jordan-Syria border clashes

The Jordanian border to Syria serves as a gateway for Syrian refugees…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Saeed Jalili, head of Iran's supreme national defence council, holds a joint press conference with Iranian ambassador to Syria Mohammad Reza Sheibani (L) at the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus on 7 August (AFP PHOTO/STR)
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Iran hosts alternative Syria conference

Iran to host a meeting to discuss the Syrian situation

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube shows damaged Syrian army tank, after they were allegedly targeted by Syrian rebels Aleppo on August 7, 2012 AFP PHOTO/YOUTUBE
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Defected Syrian PM confirmed in Jordan

Hijab only came to power in June but defected last week

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Rebels of the Free Syrian Army arrive at the scene of a bombed building purportedly hit during Syrian army shelling which was targeting the Free Syrian Army command center, but instead hit a building in a residential neighborhood located behind, in Sheikh Najar area of the restive city of Aleppo, on 6 August AFP PHOTO/ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS
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Three of the Iranians abducted in Syria killed

IRNA claimed the abducted are pilgrims visiting the Shi’a shrine of Sayyida…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha

Different angles to analyse Rafah’s turmoil

At midnight on Sunday, 16 Egyptian border guards were pronounced dead. One…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
People stand near armoured vehicles of Turkish military stationed in front of Gecimli military outpost where Kurdish rebels attacked and killed 6 soldiers and 2 village guard on 5 August at Cukurca in Hakkari AFP PHOTO / STR
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Turkey reports PKK casualties

Erdogan, has in recent weeks accused the regime in Syria of giving…

Ahmed Khalifa
Ahmed Khalifa
A picture taken on 24 November 2008 shows Syria's then agriculture minister and current prime minister Riad Hijab in Quneitra. Hijab has defected to the opposition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on 6 August, as state media reported his abrupt sacking just two months after his appointment AFP PHOTO/LOUAI BESHARA
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Syrian PM flees with family

Hijab was appointed by President Bashar Al-Assad this past June after serving…

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
A Syrian woman carries bags of bread in the restive northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on 3 August. Many thousands of Syrian civilians have fled the fighting to other countries, including Egypt AFP PHOTO / VEDAY XHYMSHITI
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Syrians seeking asylum in Egypt overlooked

Hidden crisis as countries across the region struggle to deal with effects…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha