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News Deeply
March 15, 2018
“Our fear is that after Eastern Ghouta we may see tremendous battles now in and around Idlib (in the far northwest) and, in the south, Deraa [Daraa],” he told Reuters in an interview. “It's really not too late to have talks around Idlib, to have talks around Deraa, and to have talks around Afrin,” he said.
RTE.ie
March 15, 2018
In 2011, a series of anti-government protests and uprisings known as the Arab Spring spread across the Middle East. This prompted a group of teenage boys in the Syrian city of Deraa to spray anti-government grafitti on a school wall. They were later arrested, detained and tortured, leading to a series ofÃâà...
Jordan Times
March 14, 2018
On March 6, 15 teenagers were detained for writing on walls in the city of Deraa, "The people want the fall of the regime", the slogan launched world-wide by the Egyptian uprising. That day, protests began against the imprisonment of the boys. On Friday the 18, there were demonstrations across the countryÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 13, 2018
A damaged bathroom in a house near Deraa, Syria. (Reuters/Alaa al. 9 A damaged bathroom in a house near Deraa, Syria. (Reuters/Alaa al-Faqir). Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators protest against Israeli Army conscription in the town of Bnei Brak. 10 Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators protestÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 6, 2018
Residents inspect a damaged site from what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in Nawa city, Deraa, Syria. PHOTO: REUTERS. DOUMA: An international convoy entered Syria's rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta to deliver much-needed aid on Monday as the regime pounded theÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 2, 2018
All that after the mass displacement of the populations of the majority of Homs city neighborhoods, as well as several areas in the provinces of Homs, Hama and Idlib; and under the pretext of fighting ISIS, many parts of the provinces of Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah, and even Deraa. Today, when RobertÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 1, 2018
Nearly seven years since the peaceful protests in Deraa and the reaction that set in motion what would eventually become all-out war, we are still grasping for a political solution, which is the only way to end the bloodletting. The Secretary-General has called Eastern Ghouta a “hell on earth”. The UN willÃâà...
Consortium News
March 1, 2018
In an article titled “The day before Deraa,” the American Herald Tribune's Steven Sahiounie documents how CIA-backed foreign mercenaries/terrorists were already in place ready to go prior to the outbreak of violence in Deraa in March 2011. It is now an openly admitted fact that the CIA and U.S. alliesÃâà...
Mintpress News
March 1, 2018
In an article titled “The day before Deraa,” the American Herald Tribune's Steven Sahiounie documents how CIA-backed foreign mercenaries/terrorists were already in place ready to go prior to the outbreak of violence in Deraa in March 2011. It is now an openly admitted fact that the CIA and U.S. alliesÃâà...
SAMAA TV News Pakistan
February 17, 2018
This year, Exercise Deraa Al Sahil was also a part of Naseem Al Bahr XI in which Pak Marines and RSNF Marines exercised Amphibious Landing Operations, Escorting Operations, Beach Landing, Sniper Camouflage Training and Boarding Operations. In addition, Small Arms Firing, Cover and ManeuverÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
February 1, 2018
... Observatory for Human Rights, at least seven Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants - including two leaders - were killed and 10 others were wounded when an unspecified explosive device, emplaced by unidentified militants, detonated near the town of al-Museirfah in Syria's Deraa governorate on 29 January.
Aljazeera.com
July 9, 2017
The truce began at midday (09:00 GMT) on Sunday, in the provinces of Deraa, Suweida and Quneitra in the southwest, along the Jordan border. A monitoring group said there had been no air strikes or clashes since the ceasefire started. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "calm wasÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
June 17, 2017
The Syrian military says it has suspended combat operations in the southern city of Deraa for 48 hours, as mediators announced two separate attempts to convene a new round of talks next month. The Syrian army general command said the ceasefire, effective at 09:00 GMT on Saturday, was beingÃâà...
NU.nl
December 31, 1999
Deraa is eerder tot een 'de-escalatie zone' uitgeroepen waar de strijdende partijen terughoudend zouden zijn. In februari zijn regeringstroepen begonnen een enclave van jihadisten in Oost-Ghouta te heroveren. Daarbij zijn al duizenden mensen omgekomen en bovendien zitten veel mensen vast in deÃâà...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
Instead of moving by night - the traditional tactic adopted by the army in the war - vast quantities of Syrian armour have been humming along the highways to the capital in broad daylight from Aleppo and Homs in the north, from Deraa in the south, and from the countryside of Damascus itself. The SyrianÃâà...
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