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Well-Known Dutch priest killed in Syria’s Homs

Mon Apr 7, 2014 18:39:16

Dutch priest Frans van der Lugt, who gained renown for his insistence on staying in Syria's besieged city of Homs, was shot dead there on Monday by an unknown gunman.

ISIL terrorists hit by rival mortar shell in Syria: video

Mon Apr 7, 2014 17:36:50

A footage posted on the Internet showing a pick-up truck with a mounted heavy machine gun belonging to the notorious terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) comes under attack by a rival mortar shell.

Active phase of war over this year: Assad tells Russia ex-PM

Mon Apr 7, 2014 17:30:30

A former Russian prime minister who recently met Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian president told him that much of the fighting in the country's civil war would be over by the end of the year, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Monday.

Turkey behind Syria false flag sarin attack

Mon Apr 7, 2014 16:36:56

American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that last year’s sarin gas attack near Damascus was a false flag operation orchestrated by the Turkish intelligence in a bid to trigger war against Syria.

ISIL slams al-Qaeda chief for betraying Osama bin Laden

Mon Apr 7, 2014 14:32:18

The extremist group of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has criticized al-Qaeda’s leader Aymen Zawahiri of betraying Osama bin Laden, slain leader of the terrorist group.

To Saudi royals: Where is your humanity?

Mon Apr 7, 2014 10:55:50

Perhaps it started as sheer coincidence, but just like a fire that starts from the smallest sparks, words that strike a chord with the oppressed in the oil kingdom could ignite the flammable stock of discontent that has been accumulating for decades in Saudi Arabia.

Nasrallah: Danger of Syria’s fall doesn’t exist anymore

Mon Apr 7, 2014 08:23:28

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the danger of Syrian government fall with the ongoing foreign-backed insurgency is now gone, so are the separation threats.

Israel lack of cooperation failed peace-talks :Official

Mon Apr 7, 2014 07:50:32

The Palestinian Authority (PA) says the US-mediated talks with the Israeli regime has ended with no breakthrough blaming Tel Aviv for the failure and lack of cooperation.

Exclusive: Some 80 militants killed near Syrian capital

Sun Apr 6, 2014 22:25:13

Latest operations by the Syrian army around capital Damascus have left at least 80 militants, mostly from al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra Front, dead while heavy clashes are still underway in the area.

‘Al-Nusra’s mysterious leader trapped by Syrian army’

Sun Apr 6, 2014 19:04:40

Syrian army has besieged a strategic area in Aleppo, trapping head of the al-Nusra Front Abu Mohamed al-Golani, the group members have said.

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