Tag: Syria

In this Sunday, May 4, 2014 photo, a musician plays harp during a practice at art school which adjoins the Damascus Opera House in Damascus Syria. Two students were killed and five others were wounded when a mortar landed outside the Opera building in April 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Damascus opera suffers under mortar strikes

Dusan Stojanovic · May 6, 2014 4:15 pm

US upgrades status of Syrian opposition offices

US upgrades status of Syrian opposition offices

Matthew Lee · May 5, 2014 7:23 pm

This Sunday, May 4, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian men carrying the body of a man who was killed by a government forces airstrike, in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian state media say on Monday, May 5, 2014 rockets have slammed into a government-held district in the northern city of Aleppo, killing many people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syria clashes kill 21 rebels in Aleppo province

Barbara Surk · May 5, 2014 4:27 pm

This photo made on Thursday, May 1, 2014, shows Crac des Chevaliers, top center, the world's best preserved medieval Crusader castle, above the destroyed Sunni village of Hosn in Syria. The village was destroyed in fighting between the government and rebel forces while the castle, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, also has been damaged over the past two years. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Syria’s historic Crusader castle damaged by war

Dusan Stojanovic · May 5, 2014 4:03 pm

People walk through the Damascus General Hospital past a portrait of the President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 4, 2014. An official with Syria's Supreme constitutional Court said Assad and two others will be candidates in coming June presidential elections. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Assad to face 2 others in Syrian presidential poll

Barbara Surk · May 4, 2014 6:47 pm

FILE - This file photo released on Thursday Nov. 29, 2012 by the anti-government activist group Homs City Union of The Syrian Revolution, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens walking in a destroyed street that was attacked by Syrian forces warplanes, at Abu al-Hol street in Homs province, Syria. Syria's government and rebels agreed to a ceasefire on Friday, May 2, 2014 in the battleground city of Homs to allow hundreds of fighters holed up in its old quarters to evacuate, a deal that will bring the country's third-largest city under control of forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Homs City Union of The Syrian Revolution, File)

Syria activists say evacuations from Homs delayed

Diaa Hadid · May 3, 2014 4:58 pm

FBI: Flow of foreign fighters into Syria growing

FBI: Flow of foreign fighters into Syria growing

Eric Tucker · May 2, 2014 10:23 pm

Cease-fire, evacuation deal in Syria’s Homs

DUSAN STOJANOVICZEINA KARAM · May 2, 2014 7:24 pm

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a bulldozer removing the wreckage of a destroyed school that was hit by a Syrian government air strike in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Many people were killed and wounded, including several children, activists reported. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Activists: At least 33 killed in Syrian airstrike

Zeina Karam · May 1, 2014 5:22 pm

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a damaged school that was hit by a Syrian government air strike in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Many people were killed and wounded, including several children, activists reported. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Airstrike on Syrian school kills 19, activists say

Diaa Hadid · April 30, 2014 7:46 pm

President Obama is greeted by Jejomar C. Binay, Vice President of the Philippines , as he arrives on Air Force One at Ninoy Aquino International Airport at suburban Pasay city outside of Manila, Philippines, Monday, April 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Despite a partial pivot in Asia, Obama foreign policy still in disarray

Michael Barone · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian people gather at the site of one of two car bombs that exploded in the pro-government district of Zahra in the central Syrian city of Homs, Syria, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Dozens of people were killed and wounded in the attacks just hours after one of the deadliest mortar strikes in the heart of the capital, Damascus, killed 14, officials and state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Attacks in 2 Syrian cities kill at least 54

Washington Examiner · April 29, 2014 8:23 pm