Palestine
Ceasefire at Syria’s Yarmouk camp: PFLP-GC
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) announced that a ceasefire was reached in Syria's besieged Yarmouk refugee camp.
Tag: Syria
Greater Middle East
Syria: jihadis target Armenians
Some 2,000 Armenians from the town of Kessab in northern Syria have taken refuge in the port city of Latakia following the occupation of their town by jihadist forces.
Greater Middle East
Turkish ‘false flag’ plot on Ottoman site in Syria?
Does the leaked YouTube video reveal that Turkey's intelligence establishment was planning a "false flag" attack on the revered grave of an medieval sultan in Syria?
Greater Middle East
Lebanon, Golan Heights at stake in Syria conflict
A suicide blast hit Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Hezbollah fighters took a Syrian border town. Meanwhile, a Syrian opposition figure broaches selling the Golan for Israeli military aid.
Greater Middle East
Amnesty accuses Syria government of war crimes
Amnesty International accused Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on Palestinian refugees at the Yarmouk camp.
Greater Middle East
Syria: ISIS destroy Sufi shrine, impose jizya tax
Qaeda-aligned insurgent group ISIS destroyed a Sufi Muslim shrine in Syrian Kurdistan and announced a "jizya" tax on non-Muslims in their zones of control.
Greater Middle East
UK: ex-Gitmo detainee in Syria terror bust
British counter-terrorism forces arrested Moazzam Begg in his hometown of Birmingham, along with three other individuals on terrorism offenses related to the war in Syria.
Iran
Nobel Peace laureate slams Iran over Syria role
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi spoke out against her own government and Russia for their "intervention in Syria" on the side of Bashar Assad's regime.
Greater Middle East
HRW: Syria regime responsible for demolitions
Human Rights Watch reports that Syrian authorities deliberately demolished residential neighborhoods with explosives and bulldozers in Damascus and Hama over the last year.
Greater Middle East
Syria: NATO intervention —against al-Qaeda?
A Turkish military incursion against Qaedist rebels in Syria comes amid claims that al-Qaeda affiliates have seized the country's oilfields and are planning attacks on the West.
Watching the Shadows
Obama’s fifth year: a World War 4 Report scorecard
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
Greater Middle East
Experts find ‘clear evidence’ of Syria war crimes
Amnesty International and other rights groups are demanding that the Geneva conference must address claims of "industrial-scale" massacres and torture in Syria.