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AP WASHINGTON AFTER months of caution, President Barack Obama suddenly is positioned more aggressively on Syria than the global leaders he’s joining at a summit on Monday, now that he has authorised…

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA QATAR Charity (QC) has distributed various relief materials, including food, clothing, and medical and kitchen items to 1,800 Syrian refugees in the Qaim area of Iraq. As m…

AP BEIRUT Sunni Muslims thousands fled a Syrian coastal town on Saturday, a day after reports circulate that dozens of people, including children, had been killed by pro-Government gunmen in space, …

QNA AMMAN QATAR is doing its best to support the Syrian refugees in all regions of Jordan, especially in Zaatari camp, Qatar’s Ambassador to Jordan HE Zayed bin Saeed al Khayareen said on Tuesday. H…

AFP DAMASCUS Syria President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday met with a Committee in charge of forging a political settlement of the country increasing conflict, State media said. "President Assad…

AP BEIRUT SYRIAN government forces have seized control of a longcontested neighbourhood in the central city of Homs that is considered a symbol of opposition to President Bashar al Assad’s regime, a…

QNA DOHA PRIME Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al Thani said on Tuesday that Qatar backs the Syrian rebels all the way. Talking to Al-Jazeera, the PM sa…

AFP BEIRUT SYRIA’S army repelled a rebel attack on Wednesday on a military base at Sheikh Suleiman, 25 kilometres northwest of the city of Aleppo, and killed at least 25 insurgents, a watchdog said.…

MOHAMED KHOULAIDI DOHA THE International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands (FSDL) opened at the Qatar University (QU) on Wednesday under the patronage of the Heir Apparent His Highness Sheikh…

RAMY SALAMA DOHA THE Qatar Centre for Voluntary Activity (QCVA) is embarking on a six-month campaign to source relief materials for displaced Syrians. During the campaign, QCVA aims to collect cloth…

AP BEIRUT TWIN suicide bombings shook a southern Syrian city on Saturday, killing at least 20 regime troops, an activist group said. The early morning blasts in Daraa targeted an encampment for gove…

AFP DOHA VETERAN dissident George Sabra, a Christian former communist, was elected president of the Syrian National Council opposition bloc at a meeting in Doha, on Friday. The SNC’s 41-member gener…

AFP ZAGREB US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington wanted to help the Syrian opposition unite against President Bashar al Assad’s regime but urged it to resist effort…

AP BEIRUT SYRIAN warplanes launched 60 airstrikes against rebel targets around the country on Monday and conducted what activists said were the most intense air raids on the suburbs of Damascus sinc…

RAMY SALAMA DOHA QATAR Charity (QC) will distribute 1,000 sacrificial animals to Syrian refugees both inside and outside their homeland on the occasion of Eid Al Adha. The goodwill gesture is aimed …

AP BEIRUT THE Syrian army promised to observe a four-day cease-fire for Eid Al Adha starting on Friday, while rebels claimed to have taken control of new areas in the key battleground of Aleppo. In …

AFP MAARET AL-NUMAN WARPLANES pounded an important rebel-hold city in Syria for a second straight day on Friday as violence continued on the ground, with loyalists of President Bashar al Assad and r…

AFP DAMASCUS WARPLANES unleashed a wave of raids in Syria’s north on Tuesday, aiming to dislodge rebels whose seizure of a key highway has prevented reinforcements from reaching the main battlegroun…