LONDON (Reuters) – British police charged a second man on Thursday with terrorism offences over the kidnapping of two photographers in Syria in July. Jubayer Chowdhury, 24, is accused of unlawfully imprisoning Dutch photographer Jeroen Oerlemans and British colleague John … Continue reading
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey sent fighter jets to its southeastern frontier with Syria for a second day on Thursday, a Reuters witness said, following an air assault this week by Syrian warplanes on the rebel-held border town of Ras … Continue reading
Globe and MailCanada's commitment to Syria stops well short of warGlobe and MailThe opposition in Syria has coalesced around a new leadership. President Barack Obama, safely re-elected, has a fresh mandate to confront the murderous Assad regime. British Prime Minister … Continue reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A shipment of graphite cylinders usable in a missile program and suspected to have come from North Korea were found in May aboard a Chinese ship en route to Syria in what appears to have been … Continue reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The Syrian Arab Red Crescent estimates that 2.5 million people are internally displaced within Syria by civil war, doubling the previous figure of 1.2 million used by aid agencies, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. … Continue reading