Posts Tagged ‘President Bashar Assad’

Turkish drones kill 3 in an attack on a local Christian militia in Syria

Monday, March 4th, 2024

Turkish drone strikes in northeastern Syria on Wednesday killed at least three members of a local Christian force and wounded others, including civilians, a Kurdish official and a Syrian opposition war monitor said. Also on Wednesday, it was reported Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus. On the same day, in the southern Syrian city of Sweida, security forces Read more

Nun says insurrection in Syria is totalitarian

Friday, August 17th, 2012

A Carmelite nun says the armed insurrection in Syria is “producing a totalitarianism that is worse” than that of President Bashar Assad’s regime. Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, a religious superior in Syria, also appealed to the international community to stop supporting violent militias linked to al-Qaida and other extremist groups guilty of atrocities Read more