Syria

When Yalda Yacoub (25 years old), Naseem’s friend, rushed to attend to his friend, he was prevented from do so, attacked and injured as well. He was transferred to the hospital in Damascus. What aggravated the situation today (Sunday), as explained by Mr. Sulaiman Yousuf a member in the Political …

When Naseem’s friend Yalda Yacoub, aged 25, rushed to attend to his friend, he was prevented from do so, attacked and shot. He was transferred to the hospital in Damascus. Yalda Yacoub died on the same day at the hospital. Mr. Sulaiman Yousuf, a member in the Political Bureau of …

  The Assyrian Democratic Organization, which has had several run ins in the past with Syrian authorities, was to hold anniversary ceremonies two weeks ago, according to a statement it faxed to The Associated Press. But political security agents in the northeastern city of Qamishli notified the head of the …

  The inhabitants of the town of Dereek are Assyrians and Kurds (majority Kurdish since Assyrians have been leaving the area). The Assyrian farmers were carrying 25 million liras (approximately $US 500,000) when they were killed in a brutal fashion. The money was not taken by the killers, rather left …

The bishop of the Orthodox Assyrian church in al-Hassaka, Matta Rohem, confirmed news of finding the two explosives and said they were defused, belittling their destructive power. Rohem said in press statements that the two explosives were found in a people s area near al-Qamishli municipality near Jaghjagh river bridge …

  Syrian Arabs are accusing some Kurd countrymen of trying to give the United States a pretext to intervene in Syria like it has done in neighbouring Iraq. Arabs on the streets of some Syrian cities voiced anger and dismay at recent violence in the north of the country, saying …

The violence in Qameshli ended after Interior Minister Ali Haj Hammoud flew to the area to take control and the authorities threatened those responsible with the “severest punishments”. Police officers and residents armed with licensed hunting rifles patrolled the streets of al-Hassaka, the administrative centre of the region, where public …

A truck flying a Kurdish flag followed a vehicle near Afrin in northern Syria that bore the body of Ibrahim Mohammad, one of the demonstrators said to have been killed by the police. People lined the route to the graveyard along streets still scarred by the burn marks of tyres …

By Inal Ersan and Marwan MakdesiAL-HASSAKA, Syria (Reuters) – Sporadic gunfire echoed through the northeast Syrian town of Kemishli on Sunday as a burning grain silo and damaged public buildings showed the severity of two days of Kurdish rioting that killed 14 people.Senior security officials met local leaders as part …