Mikdad Meets Dardari on Reconstruction Plans
Semi-independent Al- Watan
May 20, 2013
A Syrian official meets former Syrian PM Dardari, who left the country after the revolution
A Syrian official meets former Syrian PM Dardari, who left the country after the revolution
Activists said security forces arrested the prominent Syrian actress and outspoken activist against the regime on Thursday and released her in several hours later, she was released.
Syrian armed forces inflicted heavy losses on terrorists in a string of operations targeting their cells in in Damascus countryside Wednesday, also destroying weapons and ammunition.
The government has increased the price of gasoline, the second such rise in two months.
Syrian army units killed and injured scores of terrorists in Homs and its countryside Tuesday, also destroying large amounts of weapons and ammunition.
Decision to lift Syria sanctions will have little effect
Every day, the activists from an organization called Shawishka meet in a small apartment in one of the neighbourhoods of Qamishli, a majority Kurdish city in Syria’s Hassaka Governorate, to come up with new projects to empower women.
The leader of the Islamic pro-Qaeda militia group al-Nusra Front has been wounded in the rural areas around the capital city of Damascus
Air Force Intelligence forces arrest twelve young journalists who were sitting at a café down town the capital city of Damascus
“When a bird is in a cage it remains helpless. Yesterday I flew out of the deceptive gold cage I had been in. Now with the sons and daughters of Syria, and nothing else, I will continue the road towards freedom,” Khatib says
Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with journalists working for the state media on Friday and urged them “not to worry” because “victory is near.”
The Syrian Trust for Development, in collaboration with the Agha Khan Network for Development, held on Tuesday an introductory activity on three developmental initiatives launched at the temporary residential centers in Damascus.
The government blamed “terrorists,” for the killing of at least 10 people and wounding 20 in what was the deadliest in a string of such attacks on President Bashar Assad’s seat of power
President Bashar al-Assad has condoled on martyrdom of scholar Dr. Mohammad Saed Ramadan al-Bouti who was assassinated yesterday in a terrorist explosion occurred inside al-Iman Mosque in Damascus.
“The terrorist act which targeted the prominent scholar Mohammad Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti bears the imprints of al-Qaeda and its allies,”underscored Foreign and Expatriates Ministry.
The Assad regime has launched a massive military campaign in the cities of Homs, Jebl Turkman off of the Syrian Coast, and the city of Dariyah in Damascus, in what seems to be an attempt to regain control of those areas
Islamist radicals may be gaining strength, but the spirit that sparked this uprising survives in the unlikeliest of places.
Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to have just learned that Ayham Mostafa Ghazzoul, a contributor to the Damascus-based Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), died under torture four days after being arrested on 5 November 2012.
Moaz al-Khatib, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, told NOW on Thursday that “the situation [in Syria] is stalling and I want to avoid bloodshed.”
The regime continues to seek opportunities to delegitimize the revolution and create a rift among Syrians. The regime will try to distract from its murderous onslaught by attempting to demonize the Syrian Revolution and creating divisions amongst the diverse religious and ethnic groups. However, Syrians have insisted on national unity, thwarting the regimes efforts and rejecting any rift or divisions.
