JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army on Friday night bombed an Assad regime arms depot in southern Syria, it announced. “Overnight, in response to launches from Syria toward the southern Golan Heights which didn’t cross into Israeli territory, IDF (Israeli army) artillery struck the area of the fire, and fighter jets struck a weapons storage [&he...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – One child was killed and seven people were injured in regime shelling on Wednesday in northwestern Syria’s Idlib province, according to local sources. The attack targeted the town of Sarmin by regime forces stationed in Saraqib, southwest of Idlib, the sources said. Three children and two women were among those injure...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hundreds of protesters rallied in Syria’s government-held southern Sweida province on Tuesday, demanding a better life and chanting anti-government slogans in a wave of increasingly political demonstrations, activists said. Protests in the heartland of the country’s Druze minority began nearly two weeks ...
Bosra al-Sham, Syria – AFP Rare protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government showed no sign of abating Friday with demonstrations reported in a string of towns in Daraa and Sweida provinces. The protests began late last week after the government ended fuel subsidies, dealing a heavy blow to Syrians reeling from ye...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hundreds of Syrians staged a general strike on Sunday against deteriorating living conditions and price hikes, local media reported, amid a series of sporadic demonstrations in the country’s regime-held south. The rare strike in Sweida province comes after the government this week lifted fuel subsidies, dealin...
