Little Festivity As Syria's Holiday Cease-fire Fails
Eid al-Adha is one of the holiest days on the Muslim calendar. The day marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. It's the feast of the sacrifice, when any Muslim who is able should sacrifice an...
View ArticleIn Syria's Biggest City, A Deadly Stalemate
Before the Syrian uprising, Aleppo was many things: Syria's largest city, its economic hub and cultural capital, one of the oldest, continuously occupied cities in the world.Now, Aleppo has a more...
View ArticleConflicts Brew Between Kurds, Arabs In Iraq
Arab-Kurd skirmishes in southern Iraq late last week injured dozens of people and killed at least one. Now troops from both sides are escalating and tensions are high again. This all comes as Kurdistan...
View ArticleIraqi Businesses Feel Pinch Of Iran's Economic Woes
Najaf in southern Iraq is beginning to feel the pain of neighboring Iran's economic woes. Business around Shiite sites, which usually draw scores of Iranians for the holy days of Ashura, is way down.
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Claim They Shot Down Fighter Jet With A Missile
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View ArticleA Rebel Fighter Sees Islamic Law In Syria's Future
It's about 9 o'clock in the morning, and already it's been a long day for Abu Anas. He has lost two men to a sniper serving the Syrian regime. Four more have been injured.But Abu Anas walks with a...
View ArticleAt Least 13 Syrian Children Killed In Mortar Attack
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish. We begin this hour in Syria, with some tragic news from the...
View ArticleSources: U.S., Jordan Training Syrian Rebels On Anti-Aircraft Weapons
The U.S. has now formally recognized a new Syrian opposition group as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. But the U.S. has repeatedly declined to provide weapons for rebels fighting...
View Article'Friends Of Syria' Recognize New Opposition Coalition
The U.S. now recognizes the newly formed National Syrian Coalition. The announcement came at a meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group in the Moroccan city of Marakesh.
View ArticleAs Syrian War Grinds On, A Rebel Keeps Reinventing Himself
Ibrahim Abazid had no idea he would be part of a nationwide revolt in Syria — or that his role would keep evolving.It was March 2011. Some teenagers in his hometown, Dera'a, got arrested for spray...
View ArticleU.N.: More Than 60,000 Syrians Killed During Civil War
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel.In Syria today, an airstrike by a government fighter jet on a gas...
View ArticleA Welcoming Way Station For Syrians Fleeing Home
It's called Beit Qamishlo, or the House of Qamishlo. It's named after a city in northeastern Syria, though the house isn't even in Syria — it's just across the border in southern Turkey.The house is...
View ArticleStatus Report On Fighting In Aleppo, Syria
Some six months after Syria's rebels tried to storm the country's largest city, they can claim the eastern part of Aleppo and perhaps 60 percent overall. In the west, the government army has the...
View ArticleIn War-Torn Aleppo, Old Doors That Reflect A Grand Tradition
Aleppo's storied old city, which dates to the 12th century, has suffered much in the fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels over the past few months. But parts of the city remain intact,...
View ArticleFor Those Still In Syria, A Daily Struggle
The situation for Syrian refugees is getting dire. Much has been reported about the worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of Syrians taking up shelter just outside the country's borders, but...
View ArticleAs Syrian Rebels Reopen Bakeries, Bread Crisis Starts To Ease
In Syria, the staple of most meals is a thin, round, flat bread that we would probably call pita.Back in November, as fierce fighting raged across Syria, people started to run out of this bread....
View ArticleConflict Transforms Syrian English Teacher Into War Photographer
Syria's war has thrown ordinary citizens into situations they never could have imagined and changed them in ways they never would have dreamed. It's turned carpenters, engineers and doctors into armed...
View ArticleSectarian Tensions Are On The Rise In Iraq
Overall violence in Iraq has gone down in recent years but lately there's been a string of attacks targeting Shiite interests and security forces. Widespread protests in Sunni areas are calling for the...
View ArticleSyrian Army Base Blocks Rebels Plans For Idlib Province
It's thought that the province of Idlib in northern Syria might be the first to fall under the control of anti-government rebels. If that were to happen, Idlib, which borders Turkey, would become an...
View Article'Conscience' of Syrian Revolution Faces Challenge from Islamists
Kafr Nabl is surrounded by rocky hills covered with olive and fig trees. Located in northwest Syria near the Turkish border, it used to be a sleepy town of about 30,000 people. Then it rose up against...
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