Euronews
| May 19, 2013
Syrian government troops have launched a major offensive to retake the strategically important rebel stronghold of Qusayr near Lebanon, and killed dozens, mostly civilians trapped by the fighting. Syrian forces are reportedly being supported by He...
Truthloader
| May 14, 2013
This extremely graphic video apparently showing a Syrian rebel cutting out and biting the heart of a dead government soldier has shaken Western nations already concerned about backing the forces battling Bashar al-Assad's regime. Human Rights Watc...
Euronews
| May 7, 2013
Russia and the US have agreed to arrange an international conference aimed at ending the crisis in Syria. They plan to involve both the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the rebels fighting to overthrow him. A visit by US Secretary of S...
Democracy Now!
| May 7, 2013
As the US edges toward increased intervention in Syria, long-time Mideast correspondent Robert Fisk tells Democracy Now! of his recent encounters with the Syrian army, a "ruthless" organization whose troops are racking up kills and take no prisone...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 21, 2013
At least 80 people, including several women and children, have been cut down by Syrian army fire in the town of Jdeydet al-Fadel in the suburbs of Damascus, accoring to oppostion activists. The army reportedly stormed the town after five days...
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Mosaic
| Apr 16, 2013
As the conflict in Syria continues to escalate, it is increasingly spilling over into neighboring countries. Lebanese villagers near the border with Syria have formed armed militia groups to patrol the outskirts of their areas. They claim their vi...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 8, 2013
At least 15 people have been killed after a car bomb exploded in central Damascus. Dozens more were injured. State TV is calling it a suicide attack by terrorists. Al Jazeera's Rula Amin reports from Beirut in neighboring Lebanon.
Euronews
| Apr 2, 2013
March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria's conflict, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It estimates that over 6,000 people were killed, a third of them civilians, including 300 children. Almost nowhere is sacred...
Channel 4 News
| Mar 10, 2013
Extraordinary footage has emerged from a camera mounted to a Syrian tank as it ploughs through a badly scarred suburb of Damascus. It comes as the UN refugee agency says the number of Syrians fleeing the war could triple this year.
Al Arabiya
| Mar 4, 2013
Syrian opposition forces have taken control of Ar-Raqqah in the country's north. Residents destroyed a statue of Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez, which stood in the town's main square.
— Dec 14, 2011 at 10:21 pm
...of whom many died in the army bombardment or were executed in the streets by death squads loyal to president Bashar al-Assad's' father, the late...
— Mar 9, 2012 at 02:52 pm
...chief of a military council within the Free Syrian Army that groups defectors higher in rank than its founder, Col. As'ad. Mr. Amro's wife and s...
— Sep 2, 2012 at 01:21 pm
...2011. According to the UN, 17,000 people have fallen victim to the conflict. Syrian state television reported twin bombings near security servic...
The Syrian Army, officially the Syrian Arab Army, is the land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces. It is the dominant military service of the four uniformed services, controlling the senior most posts in the armed forces, and has the greatest manpower, approximately 80 percent of the combined services. The Syrian Army was formed by the French after World War I, after the French obtained a mandate over the region.
Since 1948 it has played a major role in Syria's governance, mounting five military coups. It has fought four wars with Israel and one with Jordan. An armoured division was also deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1990–91, but saw little action. From 1976 to 2005 it was the major pillar of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. Internally it played a major part in suppressing the 1979–82 Islamic uprising in Syria, and since early 2011 has been heavily engaged in fighting what initially was an uprising, but is now being referred to as the Syrian civil war.
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