Rebellions

Taliban claims responsibility as insurgents attack Kabul airport

KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Insurgents attacked the military side of Kabul’s international airport at dawn Monday, jarring residents of the Afghan capital awake to the sound of explosions and gunfire. The area houses a key NATO strategic headquarters,...

Tags: Nelson Mandela, Emergency Incidents, Taliban, Afghanistan, International Organizations

In Syria, residents return to battered town retaken by government

QUSAIR, Syria — A line of unmarked cars and pickup trucks ferried weary Hezbollah fighters back to Lebanon on Sunday as stunned residents began returning to this war-ravaged town, in Syrian government control again after a fierce three-week battle...

Tags: Roman Catholicism, Islam, Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), National Government

Tags: Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO, Kabul (Afghanistan)

Syrian government holds victory celebration in battered Qusair

QUSAIR, Syria — Ecstatic Syrian authorities staged a victory rally Sunday  in the center of this battered but strategic town, where rebels were routed last week after having held control for more than a year, using it as a major logistics hub....

Tags: National Government, Bashar Assad, Government, Nelson Mandela, Roman Catholicism

In the Syrian city of Homs, no reprieve from battle

HOMS, Syria — The grizzled veteran of Syria's civil war was confident of victory, but he didn't underestimate his rebel adversaries dug in just a few hundred yards away in an adjoining corner of the Old City. "They have trained snipers and they're...

Tags: Bombings, Armed Forces, Human Rights, Highway Transportation, Politics

Hezbollah fighter tells of Syria battle

BEIRUT — He sits on a couch in an inconspicuous building in a southern suburb of Beirut. A baseball cap pulled down low, his eyes twitching, Hassan, a Hezbollah squad leader, describes killing more than 20 men in three weeks in the Syrian town of...

Tags: Iraq, Entertainment, Beirut (Lebanon), Religious Conflicts, Israel

A Hezbollah fighter recounts battles in Syria

Tags: Iraq, Bashar Assad, Entertainment, Iran, Beirut (Lebanon)

U.N. mission in Golan Heights may be next casualty of Syrian war

A United Nations mission that has patrolled a zone of separation between Israel and Syria for four decades is at risk of becoming the latest casualty in the grinding bloodbath between Syrian President Bashar Assad's military and the rebels fighting to...

Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian National Authority, Israel, Yom Kippur

Syria loyalists in Damascus cheered by Qusair victory

Tags: Emergency Incidents, Islam, Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Explosions

Clashes erupt in Syria near Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

BEIRUT -- Fierce fighting between Syrian rebels and government troops erupted Thursday at a United Nations-monitored checkpoint, the heaviest battle to date near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The checkpoint near the town of Quneitra, Syria’s...

Tags: National Government, Government, Armed Forces, Rentals, Israel Defense Forces

Iran outmaneuvers U.S. in the Syrian proxy war

Syria's uprising offered the possibility of a strategic defeat of Iran. In this scenario, Iran would be weakened by the collapse of President Bashar Assad's regime, Tehran's single Arab ally and a vital link to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. Isolated,...

Tags: Barack Obama, Religious Conflicts, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Johns Hopkins University

Syrian forces retake strategic town of Qusair

BEIRUT — The retaking of the strategic Syrian town of Qusair by government forces Wednesday dealt a pivotal setback to rebels who in recent weeks have lost a string of battles to President Bashar Assad and his increasingly aggressive Hezbollah...

Tags: Weaponry, Religious Conflicts, Political Dissent, Saudi Arabia, Free Syrian Army