Syria

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 …