# damascus - Thursday 13 January, 2022
# Historic Ruling
# Historic Ruling
The accused sought refuge in Germany after deserting the Syrian regime in 2012.
# damascus - Thursday 8 October, 2020
# Damascus
# Damascus
They arrived in from Damascus at 11.35pm last night.
# damascus - Sunday 15 April, 2018
# Damascus
# Damascus
Meanwhile, a Russian resolution calling for condemnation of the US, British, and French missile strikes on Syria has failed at the UN Security Council.
# damascus - Sunday 2 July, 2017
# Syria
# Syria
It’s the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months.
# damascus - Thursday 27 April, 2017
# Syria
# Syria
It’s not immediately clear if it was the result of an air strike or a ground attack.
# damascus - Saturday 11 March, 2017
# Syrian Civil War
# Syrian Civil War
Attacks are rare in the Syrian government stronghold.
# damascus - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
# Siege
# Siege
Russian and Syrian air forces have stopped bombing Aleppo as of 7am this morning, Russia’s defence minister said.
# damascus - Saturday 11 June, 2016
# Syria
# Syria
A suicide bomber and a car bomb went off at the Sayyida Zeinab shrine in Damascus this morning.
# damascus - Saturday 27 February, 2016
# Syrian Ceasefire
# Syrian Ceasefire
Fighting groups in Syria agreed to cease hostilities at midnight.
# damascus - Thursday 7 January, 2016
# Syria
# Syria
The UN said the Syrian government has now given permission for aid deliveries after the images were shared all across the world.
# damascus - Saturday 12 December, 2015
# Desperate Times
# Desperate Times
The country’s oil revenues have imploded.
# damascus - Thursday 22 October, 2015
# Jobar
# Jobar
The footage is a rare aerial view of the extent of the destruction in Syria.
# damascus - Wednesday 24 December, 2014
# Middle East
# Middle East
If the jihadists secure even more control, there are some frightening scenes ahead.
# damascus - Tuesday 13 May, 2014
# Barrel Bomb
# Barrel Bomb
Human Rights Watch say that barrel bombs embedded with cylinders of chlorine gas were dropped on three towns.
# damascus - Wednesday 30 April, 2014
# Al Qaeda
# Al Qaeda
Up to 60 people were killed in attacks on Damascus and Homs yesterday.
# damascus - Saturday 21 December, 2013
# Death
# Death
The family of Dr Abbas Khan spoke to BBC News about their anger following his death in a Syrian prison.
# damascus - Monday 7 October, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Syria’s quick compliance with the destroying of chemical weapons stockpile has earned praise from US Secretary of State John Kerry.
# damascus - Sunday 6 October, 2013
# Syrian Conflict
# Syrian Conflict
The team charged with the destruction of the weapons began the process this morning, a source in the international mission has said.
# damascus - Saturday 21 September, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Inspectors are reviewing the latest chemical weapons disclosure by Syrian officials.
# damascus - Monday 16 September, 2013
# Syrian Crisis
# Syrian Crisis
Ban Ki-moon says UN invesigators have confirmed “unequivocally and objectively” that chemical weapons, including sarin, were used.
# damascus - Sunday 8 September, 2013
# Charlie Rose
# Charlie Rose
The interview is the first given by Assad in two years.
# damascus - Saturday 7 September, 2013
# Conflict
# Conflict
The group of EU foreign ministers have pointed the finger of blame for the alleged murders on the Assad regime.
# damascus - Tuesday 3 September, 2013
# Middle East
# Middle East
A year ago, the figure was around 230,000. One million Syrian children are now living as refugees.
# damascus - Sunday 1 September, 2013
# Chemical Weapons
# Chemical Weapons
Obama says America is ready for strike action following the chemical weapons attack that killed more than 1,400 people.
# damascus - Saturday 31 August, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
The team will head to The Hague to assess the evidence gathered during their probe.
# damascus - Friday 30 August, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
The US Secretary of State John Kerry said earlier that “the question is no longer what do we know, the question is what we in the international community do now.”
# damascus - Wednesday 28 August, 2013
# Where In The World
# Where In The World
Statistically, it’s unlikely you live in any of them.
# damascus - Monday 26 August, 2013
# damascus - Friday 23 August, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Using chemical weapons and targeting innocent civilians are war crimes. But so is silence – and every day we sit back while this slaughter continues is another day that we have facilitated the killing of innocent people, writes Maurice McQuillan.
# damascus - Wednesday 21 August, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Pro-opposition groups say that government forces used a “poisonous gas” in an attack earlier today but the government says the reports are “totally false”.
# damascus - Monday 6 May, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
A member of a UN panel investigating alleged war crimes says it appears that the rebels are using sarin gas.
# damascus - Sunday 5 May, 2013
# Tensions
# Tensions
It is Israel’s second strike on Syria in three days.
# damascus - Saturday 4 May, 2013
# Israel
# Israel
At least 70,000 people have been killed in Syria so far, including 122 people killed in violence yesterday.
# damascus - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
The explosion took place in the central district of Marjeh, Syrian state television said.
# damascus - Monday 29 April, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Wael al-Halqi was travelling through Damascus when his convoy was targeted earlier today, Syrian state television reports.
# damascus - Friday 22 March, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
The statement was made after a suicide bomb at the Iman Mosque in Damascus .
# damascus - Monday 25 February, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem is the first high-ranking regime official to say the government is prepared to talk with rebels.
# damascus - Friday 22 February, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Almost 60 people were killed in the blast that rocked the city with many children among those wounded.
# damascus - Thursday 31 January, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
Russia’s foreign ministry said it was “deeply concerned” by the Syrian claims and that it was taking “urgent measures” to clarify the situation.
# damascus - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
# Syria
# Syria
The U.N. chief also appealed for a major boost in international relief aid for Syria.
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