Tag: Syria

National Security

Syria chemical destruction deadline still possible

Washington Examiner · April 10, 2014 4:42 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, black smoke rises from the rooftop of a building that was, according to SANA, attacked by a mortar shelled by the Syrian rebels in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Al-Qaida's leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, called on fighters to determine who killed his chief representative in Syria, a man many militant groups believe died at the hands of a rival militia, in a move that highlighted a conflict between rebels that has killed hundreds. (AP Photo/SANA)

Iran sends Syria 30,000 tons of food supplies

Barbara Surk · April 8, 2014 10:25 pm

In this photo taken on March 28, 2014 and released by a neutral activist youth group, About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Dutch Father Francis Van Der Lugt, 72, in Homs, Syria. A masked gunman opened fire on Van Der Lugt, a well-known elderly Dutch priest, in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, killing him instantly, a fellow priest and an activist group said. (AP Photo/About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply)

Gunman kills Dutch priest in Syrian city of Homs

Albert Aji · April 8, 2014 1:21 am

FILE - In this August 2, 2013, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem day, or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, said in interview with Lebanon's daily As-Safir newspaper published Sunday, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

National Security

Hezbollah: Danger to Syria’s president eliminated

Washington Examiner · April 6, 2014 7:36 pm

FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 file photo, shows a general view of Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. The United Nations says it is alarmed at "violent nature" of a demonstration in a massive Syrian refugee camp in Jordan that killed one person and wounded dozens. The U.N. refugee agency says a "heated demonstration" in Jordan's sprawling Zaatari refugee camp Saturday turned to "a violent one" after hundreds, possibly thousands of refugees started throwing rocks at a police post. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

UN alarmed by deadly Syrian protest in Jordan camp

Omar Akour · April 6, 2014 3:59 pm

Hague: EU must ready tougher Russia sanctions

Hague: EU must ready tougher Russia sanctions

Washington Examiner · April 4, 2014 12:01 pm

Diplomats: Syria can meet chemical weapons target

Diplomats: Syria can meet chemical weapons target

Edith Lederer · April 3, 2014 8:54 pm

Syrian refugee Yahya, speaks to journalists at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, April 3, 2014. The teenager from central Syria became the one millionth Syrian refugee to register in Lebanon on Thursday, a "devastating milestone" for the tiny Arab country with about 4.5 million people of its own, the U.N. refugee agency said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon registers 1 million Syrian refugees

Barbara Surk · April 3, 2014 7:52 pm

Syrian media: Mortar fire kills 6 near Damascus

Bassem Mroue · April 3, 2014 5:43 pm

Syrian army pounds rebels in Assad’s home province

Barbara Surk · March 31, 2014 2:45 pm

Germany arrests 3 over hard-line Syria group ties

Germany arrests 3 over hard-line Syria group ties

Washington Examiner · March 31, 2014 11:10 am

2 Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria go free

Washington Examiner · March 30, 2014 2:18 pm