Residents Return to Old Homs
Tishreen (Pro-government newspaper)
May 12, 2014
Services and utilities are being restored in the city
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Services and utilities are being restored in the city
Campaigning for Syria’s presidential election set for June begins on Sunday, the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court has announced. The election is expected to extend
Barazi says the next period will see the restoration of security to some northern areas of Homs
Governor says work is underway for the operation to include all neighborhoods of Homs and not just the Old City
The withdrawal of more than 1,000 fighters from Homs is part of a complex deal with President Bashar al-Assad’s government which also involves easing a rebel siege on two northern pro-government towns
Syria’s tourism minister has forecast a “prosperous tourist season” for the central province of Homs, being flattened
It is unclear whether there will be an investigation into the officer’s acquisitions.
Move comes as part of ongoing institution-building efforts in Kurdish provinces
The latest campaign by the Syrian regime has been particularly destructive
Four more presidential candidates submitted their applications on Tuesday to the Supreme Constitutional Court
Earlier 14 students were killed when mortar shells hit a religious school in Damascus
Christian Syrians do not occupy a specific geographic space, despite their reasonable numbers (around 6 to 9 percent of the population)
People in towns and villages far from the front lines say there is no need for large numbers of fully-armed fighters to remain in their areas
The regime has started demanding all people who rent houses must register themselves at police stations
Mohammad Firas Yassin Rajjouh, Abdul-Salam Youssef Salameh, Sawsan Omar al-Haddad and Sameer Ahmad Moalla have submitted four applications to the Supreme Constitutional Court announcing their candidacy for the President of the Republic.
One doctor says that 26 cases, including children, have arrived at a treatment center in Douma
A statement calling for the nomination of Assad appeared in many media outlets
Leftist opposition leader Mansour Atassi says anyone who runs will be the same as Assad
The poorest in Syrian society had the least level of political participation
Efforts to release the blogger as part of a prisoner exchange failed
