Syrian exiles get taste of home: Beloved ice cream Syrian refugee worker, Mohammed Ali, 25, from Yalda, Damascus, organizes ice cream cups, at the Bakdash ice cream store, in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. For Syrians, no visit to Damascus' Old City is complete without a stop at a more than century-old ice cream parlor in its main souq where you can watch them make their distinctive desert by pounding it into shape with giant wooden ...
June 20, 2013 - Washington Examiner
Syrian rebels claim attack on Shi'ites in Lebanon BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian rebel unit has claimed responsibility in a video for killing four Shi'ite men in Lebanon this week as Syria's civil war spills into its smaller, religiously divided neighbor. In the video, posted on Tuesday by a group calling itself the "Syrian Mujahideen Unit", a fighter says his brigade killed the four men as they were trying to enter Syria. He said they were ...
June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Syrian warplanes strike rebel posts in Aleppo BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian warplanes struck rebel positions near a besieged military air base and other rebel-held areas in the country's north Tuesday as regime forces stepped up attacks against opposition fighters in the key province of Aleppo, activists said.
June 18, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Abd al-Karim Qasim in International Herald Tribune This is a terrorist act and the people targeted are poor Yazidis who have nothing to do with the armed conflict,Qassim said. "Al-Qaida fighters are very active in this area near the Syrian border."
Dana Perino in International Herald Tribune This cover-up only served to reinforce our confidence that this reactor was not intended for peaceful activities,White House press secretary Dana Perino said. "The Syrian regime must come clean before the world regarding its illicit...
President Bush in Black America Web I felt like telling Kofi [Annan] to get on the phone with [Syrian president Hafez] Assad and make something happen,Bush said.