syria

GURU NANAK IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Guru Nanak passed through Jordan and entered Palestine. [1] Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Syria were all then part of Ottoman’s Empire. The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the...

GURU NANAK IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Guru Nanak passed through Jordan and entered Palestine. [1] Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Syria were all then part of Ottoman’s Empire. The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the...

BEIRUT: ISIS jihadists advanced for the first time Sunday into a military airport that is the last stronghold of the Syrian army in Raqqa province, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighters from the group had launched a fourth attack in six days on Tabqa...

The Free Syrian Army has issued a fatwa prohibiting the killing of lice that appear in the Muslim beard or else “be punished with 50 lashes by Sharia,” Ahlulbayt News , an English-language Shia Islamic television channel, reported Sunday. The fatwa, translated by Ahlulbayt, reportedly states...

Obama asks Congress to OK strike on Syria Aamer Madhani and Susan Davis, USA TODAY 3:16 p.m. EDT August 31, 2013 WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Saturday that he was ready to take military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime in retaliation for their alleged use of...

The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com US must take substantial military action in Syria now The United States has a moral and legal obligation to protect Syrian civilians from the murderous Assad regime and help end Syria's bloody civil war. Military action is supported by...

"...Archbishop Mario Zenari, Vatican nuncio in Damascus, describes the activities of the parishes involved in the preparation for Christmas, despite the bombs and religious hatred. In a Catholic institution on the outskirts of the capital, dozens of children joyfully cut out figures for the...

Source: World News on NBCNews.com By NBC News staff and wire reports AKCAKALE, Turkey – At least three people, including a child, were killed and nine others seriously wounded after mortar fire from Syria hit a town in Turkey Wednesday, an official told Turkish media. A Reuters witness saw at...

Save the Children filmed the accounts of six Syrian children living with their families in a refugee camp in the north of Jordan. Over 65% of camp inhabitants are children, many of whom are traumatised by the violence they have witnessed in Syria. The children describe hearing bombs dropping...

Syria, Yemen opposition warn dictators: You're next By Richard Allen Greene , Ivan Watson and Mohammed Jamjoom , CNN 2011-10-20 (CNN) -- Dictators around the Middle East should pay close attention to the fate of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, opposition activists from Syria and Yemen said...

washingtonpost.com - DAMASCUS, Syria -- Ayman Abdel Nour's contest with censorship began with a term not uncommon in Syria: "forbidden." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050525/ts_washpost/syria_s_voices_of_change

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, May 9 -- More than 1,000 Marines backed by Cobra helicopter gunships and F-18 jets attacked targets Monday in a region of northwestern Iraq that commanders called a sanctuary for foreign fighters...