Freed nuns reach Damascus as prisoner exchange continues
DAMASCUS/AMMAN (Reuters) - Thirteen Greek Orthodox nuns arrived in Damascus on Monday after al Qaeda fighters who held them for more than three months freed them in a deal providing...
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Freed nuns reach Damascus as prisoner exchange continues
DAMASCUS/AMMAN (Reuters) - Thirteen Greek Orthodox nuns arrived in Damascus on Monday after al Qaeda fighters who held them for more than three months freed them in a deal providing...
Air raids in central Syria kill 26: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - Air raids on rebel-held towns across Syria killed 26 people on Monday, activists said, two days after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end...
Air raids in central Syria kill 26: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - Air raids on rebel-held towns across Syria killed 26 people on Monday, activists said, two days after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end...
Activists say Syrian security forces abduct prominent dissident
AMMAN (Reuters) - Akram al-Bunni, a prominent leftist writer and former political prisoner, was abducted by Syrian intelligence agents as he left a wedding reception at a Damascus hotel on...
Car bomb kills 14 in Syrian town on Turkish border: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 70 wounded in a car bombing on Sunday near a field hospital in a Syrian town on the border with...
Activists say Syrian security forces abduct prominent dissident
AMMAN (Reuters) - Akram al-Bunni, a prominent leftist writer and former political prisoner, was abducted by Syrian intelligence agents as he left a wedding reception at a Damascus hotel on...
Free Syrian Army sacks chief, appoints replacement
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) has sacked its leader after he fell out with the Saudi-supported head of the moderate opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, opposition...
Syria Islamists fight al Qaeda allies in Raqqa
AMMAN (Reuters) - Rival Islamist rebel groups clashed in the Syrian city of Raqqa on Monday, residents said, as local fighters tried to drive out a foreign-led al Qaeda affiliate...
Al Qaeda affiliate captures Syrian town on border with Turkey: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - An al Qaeda affiliate has captured a northern Syrian town on the border with Turkey after ousting a moderate Islamist rebel unit and detained its leader, activists...