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Clashes erupted Ghouta between regime forces and opposition

Damascus - Noura Khoam

Atareb and the countryside around it remain outside the control of the Syrian government, which says it wants to retake all of Syria after six years of civil war that has killed at least 400,000 people and displaced 11 million others - half the country's population. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were three strikes on aRead more

Karam al-Masri: Syrian journalist who documented his city's destruction

Washington - AFP

Journalist Karam al-Masri was wounded multiple times and detained by both the Syrian government and the Islamic State group, but still yearns to return to conflict reporting. Masri, who on Thursday will receive the Knight International Journalism Award in Washington, worked to bring the pain, suffering and destruction wrought on Syria's Aleppo to the world's attention, first with a cameraRead more

Syria: Tens of thousands of disappeared must not be forgotten

Damascus - Muslimchronicle

The Syrian government and armed groups involved in the country’s conflict must disclose the fate and whereabouts of tens of thousands of people who have been forcibly disappeared or abducted since the onset of the crisis in 2011, said Amnesty International on the International Day of the Disappeared. “Amid the brutality and bloodshed of the Syrian conflict, the plight ofRead more

120 killed in Rashdeen blast in Aleppo

Damascus - Arab Today

As many as 120 people were killed and scores others injured when a booby-trapped car went off on Sunday targeting buses in Rashdeen neighborhood in western Aleppo. The explosion on Saturday in Rashdeen, west of Aleppo, targeted residents who were evacuated from the rebel-besieged towns of Fouaa and Kefraya in Idlib province under a deal reached between the Syrian governmentRead more

Russia calls for transparent probe into Syria chemical attack

Moscow - Arab Today

Moscow is opposed to the remote work of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Syria, and an investigation into the April 4 incident in the city of Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, should be transparent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. "Another strange thing about this story. The US began demanding full access notRead more

France: Russia 'bears a heavy responsibility' with Syria veto

Paris - Arab Today

France on Wednesday blasted Russia's vetoing of a UN draft resolution demanding the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation into a suspected chemical attack. "Russia bears a heavy responsibility through its systematic opposition -- in order to protect its ally Assad -- to a multilateral response to the issue of Syria," the French presidency said in a statement.Read more

US: UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on Syria gas attack probe

United Nations - Arab Today

The UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on a draft resolution demanding that the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation of the suspected chemical attack last week in Idlib province, US diplomats said. Britain, France and the United States put forward the measure which was slightly revised from a previous text presented last week in response to the suspected sarinRead more

Strike kills 15, including 4 children, in Syria's Idlib

Beirut - Arab Today

An air strike killed 15 civilians including four children in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The monitoring group said the strike on the village of Urum al-Joz was suspected to have been carried out by Russian planes, which operate in support of the Syrian government.Read more

Russia regards any use of chemical weapons "inadmissible"

Moscow - Arab Today

Russia considers absolutely inadmissible any use of chemical weapons, those guilty of such crimes must be held responsible, Sputnik news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as having said. "Russia consistently maintains a clear stance that any use of chemical weapons by anybody is absolutely inadmissible under any circumstances, and those guilty of such crimes must be brought to justice,"Read more

Turkey's Erdogan blames 'murderer Assad' for suspected Syria chemical attack

Istanbul - Arab Today

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday blamed the Syrian government for a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people including children, calling Bashar al-Assad a "murderer". "Hey murderer Assad, how are you going to escape from their curse?" Erdogan told a rally, claiming that over 100 people including children "became martyrs with chemical weapons." Source AFPRead more