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January 24th, 2019 - 08:18 GMT

Syrians Wait Outside in Bleak Midwinter to Warm Their Homes

Twitter users are circulating photos that are emerging from Syria of people in long queues for fuel to warm their homes from the biting winter.

Hezbollah fighters assisted regime forces in seizing the Lebanese border town al-Qusayr from rebel forces earlier this year (AFP/Getty Images)

October 27th, 2013 - 06:11 GMT

Fifteen Hezbollah fighters killed in clashes in Damascus

Abbas Hammoud, one of the nine Lebanese pilgrims held hostage in Syria for 17 months, is welcomed by his mother Mayla Aldurr upon his arrival at his home in the coastal city of Tyre in south Lebanon on October 20, 2013. On Wednesday, an activist announced that the Syrian authorities had released 14 women detained in the country as part of a hostage exchange deal. (AFP)

October 23rd, 2013 - 09:50 GMT

Syria releases 14 women detainees in hostage exchange deal

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube by Moadamiyet al-Sham media centre on October 22, 2013 allegedly shows smoke billowing above buildings after shelling by Syrian goverment forces in Damascus' rebel-held Moadamiyet al-Sham suburb. (AFP PHOTO / YOUTUBE / MOADAMIYET AL-SHAM MEDIA CENTRE)

October 23rd, 2013 - 06:13 GMT

Syrian rebels, regime clash in key Damascus suburbs

Syria warplanes launched strikes in the Damascus suburb of Mleha Monday after rebels seized the area's checkpoint from government forces (AFP)

October 21st, 2013 - 11:57 GMT

Warplanes strike rebel areas near Damascus, regime continues "onslaught"

Awaiting confirmation on the status of the negotiated release of hundreds of women. [naharnet]

October 21st, 2013 - 07:12 GMT

Two hundred women still detained after Lebanese/Syria hostage exchange deal

Arab League general secretary Nabil al-Arabi (R) listens to UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaking during a press conference following their meeting on October 20, 2013. (Image credit: AFP)

October 20th, 2013 - 05:26 GMT

Syria Geneva II conference could be held on November 23

The Friends of Syria group have previously held meetings on ways to end the conflict in Syria. The group hopes the talks in London with Syrian opposition leaders will ensure that the Geneva II talks in November result in a successful political solution to end the bloody conflict (Courtesy of Al-Arabiya)

October 20th, 2013 - 10:36 GMT

Friends of Syria to meet with Syria opposition in London talks this week

The scene following a suicide car bombing in Salmiyeh, a town in the central Syrian province of Hama, on January 22, 2013 (SANA/AFP, Ho)

October 20th, 2013 - 08:19 GMT

Dozens killed, wounded after car bomb hits Syria's Hama

U.N-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (L) speaks as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks on after their meeting at Winfield House (Image credit: AFP)

October 18th, 2013 - 07:10 GMT

Kerry expects weapons to be consolidated and shipped out of Syria soon

The global chemical watchdog OPCW will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize for its oversight of the destruction of Syria's chemical weapon arsenal (Peter Dejong/AP)

October 11th, 2013 - 05:57 GMT

UN lauds OPCW recognition in Oslo, but is Nobel Peace Prize announcement premature?

At least 52 journalists have been killed covering the Syrian conflict. Here, footage from an amateur video shows NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues after they were abducted by an armed gang in Syria. (Image via thejournal.ie)

October 9th, 2013 - 10:03 GMT

Abduction: the price of being a journalist in Syria

OPCW announced Tuesday that it will send a second team of chemical inspectors to Syria to reinforce its mission (Courtesy of Mike Corder/AP)

October 8th, 2013 - 04:40 GMT

More chemical inspectors to be sent to Syria