Tag: Syria
Africa hosts 86% of world refugees – UN
Developing countries, including many in Africa, now host 86 per cent of the worlds refugees, up from 70 per cent…
Car bomb kills 34, injures 50 in Syria
A car bomb claimed by rebels killed at least 34 people on Friday in a government-controlled village in the central…
Blair denies Iraq violence result of 2003 invasion
Tony Blair hit out on Sunday at critics who linked the 2003 invasion of Iraq with the current violence in…
Syria begins prisoners release
Syria has begun releasing prisoners from government jails under a general amnesty announced by President Bashar al-Assad, human rights lawyers…
Russia praises Syrian election, criticises foreign monitors
Syrian ally Russia on Thursday in Moscow said observers had found the presidential election in which Bashar al-Assad retained power…
Britain brands Assad re-election an ‘insult’
Britain branded Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s election victory an “insult”, saying Thursday the poll was merely a way of “sustaining…
Assad re-elected Syria president in ‘farce’ polls
Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected Syria’s president with 88.7 per cent of the vote after a poll labelled a farce…
US confirms American carried out Syria suicide bombing
The United States confirmed Friday that it believes a US citizen carried out a suicide bombing within Syria, as had…
Jordan expels Syrian ambassador
The Jordanian government said on Monday it has declared Syria’s ambassador to Amman, Bahjat Suleiman, a persona non grata and…
Mortar fire in Damascus kills 12, injures 50
Mortar shells slammed into central Damascus on Tuesday, hitting a technical institute in a barrage that killed 12 people and…
Four French journalists held captive in Syria freed – Hollande
Four French journalists held captive in Syria for almost a year were freed today and are “in good health” President…
UN confirms ‘chilling’ sarin gas attack in Syria
New York (AFP) The United Nations on Monday revealed what it called “chilling” details of a sarin gas attack in…
US, France: Support growing for Syria strikes
PARIS (AFP) – The United States and France said Saturday that international backing was growing for military strikes to punish…
Obama rallies global support for Syria strikes
DAMASCUS(AFP) – US President Barack Obama Wednesday urged world support for punitive strikes against Syria for its alleged use of…
Syria: UN experts scurry out as US strikes imminent
DAMASCUS (AFP) – UN experts probing a suspected chemical weapons attack quit Syria on Saturday, opening a window into a…
Imminent military strike on Syria jacks oil prices
Oil prices soared in Asia on Wednesday as Western powers prepared for possible military action against Syria over the regime’s…
West primed to punish Assad over chemical warfare
LONDON, (AFP) Any action against Syria would be aimed at “degrading” the regime’s alleged chemical weapons’ capability, British Prime Minister…
Iran threatens America over Syria
A top Iranian military chief warned on Sunday that the US will face “harsh consequences” if it intervenes in ally…
Syria’s chemical warfare could draw US intervention
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Signs are growing that the horror of chemical warfare could for the first time draw the United…
Syria: Assad won’t quit yet
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car…
11 die as abnormal weather blasts Middle East
Abnormal storms which for four days have blasted the Middle East with rain, snow and hail have left at least…
US tightens the screws on Syria’s Assad
The United States moved to freeze the assets of dozens of Syrian ministers Wednesday, piling pressure on the regime as…
Syria’s defence minister killed in suicide attack
Syrian defence minister General Daoud Rajha died in a suicide attack in Damascus on Wednesday, as raging battles across the…
Russia continues romance with Syria
Russia said Wednesday it would fulfil a contract to deliver air defence systems to Syria and had no plans to…
Kofi Annan: Syria talks have failed
International envoy Kofi Annan acknowledged the failure so far of his mission to bring peace to Syria, as more than…
Pressure mounts on Syria’s Assad to go
International leaders Friday urged the UN to ratchet up pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by threatening tough sanctions, as…
Syria in tit-for-tat with Western diplomats
Syria’s government declared on Tuesday that the ambassadors and staff of several Western countries as well as Turkey were personae…
UN team arrives Syria’s brutalized town of Houla
A team of UN observers deployed in Syria to monitor a shaky truce arrived on Saturday in the town of…
EU slams more sanctions on Syria
European Union foreign ministers have agreed fresh sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday and warned of more action…
Before The Vampires Taste Blood —Gbenga Ogundare
I thought the President is a dove? So he told us some market days ago at the village square when…