Category: Syria

NOVANEWS Tony Cartalucci The small northwestern Syrian town of Kassab, located directly on the Syrian-Turkish border, has turned into a pivotal battleground between Syrian security forces and armed militants backed by the Turkish military. The […]

NOVANEWS by Eric Margolis  As Syria lies dying, western media cries, “we must save Syria’s suffering children.” Indeed so, among Syria’s nine million internal and external refugees, some 450,000 are children. All civil wars are bloody […]

NOVANEWS (image by Lily Martin) OpEd News Lilly Martin, an American who is married to a Syrian and has lived in the Alawite border region with Turkey for twenty-one years, sent me this email today, […]

NOVANEWS Associated Press BEIRUT –  Syrian state media say government forces have ambushed a group of rebels who crossed into the country from neighboring Jordan and killed several of the fighters. SANA news agency said […]

NOVANEWS Rebel fighters fire a machine gun during clashes with pro-government forces on March 18, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (Photo: AFP- AMC/Tamer al-Halabi) al Akhbar Kuwaiti Salafis have played a central […]

NOVANEWS The ambush was part of a campaign by the Syrian army and allied militias to secure towns and villages along the Lebanese border as well as a highway from the capital Damascus to the […]

NOVANEWS jpost A new report released Tuesday on the presence of foreign Shi’ite fighters entering Syria to fight on behalf of the Assad regime has put their numbers at 7,000 to 8,000. The study was […]

NOVANEWS Bashar al-Assad The Syria Solidarity Movement wishes to draw the attention of the peace movement to the renewed danger of a unilateral US attack on Syria. Here’s what we have recently observed: 1) Since […]