LATEST FROM Tartus
August 12
CHAIR V. COFFIN: More than three years into the Syrian conflict, President Bashir Assad is facing pressure from an unlikely new source: the Alawites.
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May 11
Campaign officially underway as opposition slams “Blood Elections”
The campaigning period for Syria’s presidential elections began Sunday, according to a statement from the Supre...
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March 23
COASTAL CAMPAIGN: Opposition factions fighting in Syria’s northwestern Latakia province announced the formation Saturday of a “Joint Operations Room” to mount what rebels are ca...
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March 02
March 02, 2014
Last month, opposition activists released video of a regime warplane directly targeting Krak des Chevaliers, a medieval Crusader castle and UNESCO world heritage s...
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February 13
SON OF TARTUS: In a darkened room, a Syrian man from the western province of Tartous describes having to leave his village after the scandal he caused by asking the local grocer...
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August 01
* Qatar News Agency: Jarba says no negotiations until the Free Army and revolutionary forces are stronger on the ground.
* SANA: ِ"If we were not sure that we were going to win i...
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May 06
'CLEANSING' BANIAS: Pro-Assad Alawite militia leader, Ali Kayali, speaks of plans to “purify” the Banias coastal area. "Banias is these traitors’ only access to the sea," h...
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May 03
May 3, 2013
Moataz, 28, is a dentistry student who asked that his last name be withheld for security reasons, comes from Ras a-Rifi in Banias. He was arrested by the Military Sec...
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May 03
May 3, 2013
By Ahmed Kwider
Regime forces continued operations in the coastal Tartus province Friday as multiple reports of a civilian massacre surfaced and pro government SAMA ...
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March 18
THE EARLY UPRISING: This week, SAS News presents its top five events of the Syrian revolution in chonological order, one for each day of the week, and we begin where it all bega...
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