Syrian Revolution Daily News Round-up Day 723: Wednesdat 6-Mar-13

Residents and firemen try to put out a fire in a building that was targeted by an airstrike in Raqa city today

Rebels blast several army checkpoints, military campaigns continue on Raqa and Homs Today’s Top Stories Regime intense shelling left dozens of people dead and wounded in Raqa, Homs, Idlib and Damascus. Dozens of soldiers killed and injured as rebel fighters blasted nine military checkpoints across the country. The number of Syrian refugees topped the one […]

Syrian Revolution Daily News Round-up Day 722: Tuesday 5-Mar-13

Smoke billows from the Khalid Bin Waleed mosque after been shelled by regime forces today - Homs

Regime steps up attacks on Raqa and Homs, fighting escalates near Damascus Today’s Top Stories Dozens killed and injured due to unprecedented shelling in Homs and Raqa. Rebels killed and injured dozens of regime forces in Damascus and Homs. Syrian parliament approved the US1 billon credit facility agreement between Syria and Iran Today’s Top Videos […]

Syrian Revolution Daily News Round-up Day 696: Thursday 7-Feb-13

Bodies of victims killed by indiscriminate shelling in the Homs suburb of Qaryaten

221 Syrians killed today most of them in Hama Today’s Top Stories Dozens killed and injured due to explosions and heavy shelling in the suburbs of Hama. Regime forces brace for a major offensive on the Aleppo suburb of Sfeera. Heavy fighting continued in Damascus as the rebels gained advances in Idlib and Raqa. Today’s […]

Syrian Revolution Daily News Round-up Day 663: Saturday 05-Jan-13

The Syrian fighter jet that defected to Jordan on 21 June 2012

Defections and weather conditions help Syrians against air strikes Today’s Top Stories Lower number of casualties reported due to the reduction in air raids carried by regime forces. Syrian Air Force pilot fled to Turkey with his MiG fighter jet. Regime forces executed dozens of civilians including women and children in Damascus and Idlib. Today’s […]

Syrian Revolution Daily News Round-up Day 632: Wed. 05-Dec-12

Rebel fighters pose on a tank they captured in the Homs suburb of Qusayr

Rebels make further gains in Damascus and Aleppo Today’s Top Stories Airport fighting continued as the rebel fighters edge closer toward taking the infantry academy in Aleppo. Regime forces committed the second massacre in the neighborhood of Bustan Qaser in Aleppo city in less than a week. Syria was ranked 144 out of 176 countries […]

Syrian Revolution Daily Round-up Day 628: Sat. 01-Dec-12

Syrian rebel fighter carrying a surface-to-air missile

Airport fighting intensifies, rebels shoot down six warplanes Today’s Top Stories Fighting for the country’s main airport continued for the third consecutive day. The Syrian National Coalition edged closer toward forming a transitional government. Regime forces continued their attacks on opposition areas, killing as many as 172 people. Today’s Top Videos Bait Sahem, Damascus Suburb: Regime […]

Syria eyewitness dispatch: ‘I watched as Assad’s tanks rolled in to destroy a rebel town’

T72 main battle tanks advance into the market square district in Saraquib town centre  Photo: JOHN CANTLIE

As President Bashar al-Assad discussed a ceasefire for Syria last week, his tanks continued to crush northern rebel strongholds. In this dispatch from the town of Saraqeb, John Cantlie describes an assault at first hand. – By John Cantlie The sound of the caterpillar tracks could be felt as much as heard, a deep rumble […]

Syrian activist fears “Baba Amr repeat” in Khaldiyeh shelling

- By AFP/NOW Lebanon Syrian army troops on Wednesday shelled the Homs district of Khaldiyeh, a day after at least 14 civilians were killed in heavy bombardment, an activist in the city said. “Khaldiyeh is being bombed, with shells and rockets, for a second day,” Hadi Abdullah of the Syrian Revolution General Commission told AFP […]

Video: Syria: Songs of Defiance

An Al Jazeera journalist who was forced to remain anonymous for security reasons offers an unusual but compelling first-person account of a country in turmoil and a revolution in progress in this intriguing episode of People and Power. Source

Secret Assad emails lift lid on life of leader’s inner circle

Bashar al-Assad apparently made light of reforms he had promised in an attempt to defuse the Syrian crisis. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

• Messages show Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran • Leader made light of promised reforms • Wife spent thousands on jewellery and furniture – By Robert Booth, Mona Mahmood and Luke Harding Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several […]

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