Sentences with phrase «syrian army has»

The Free Syrian Army has captured a strategic military base outside of Aleppo, Syria's cultural hub.

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Turkish and Free Syrian Army flags had been raised in Afrin, he said.

Tensions escalated on Sunday as the U.S. army brought down the jet near Raqqa and Iran launched missiles at Islamic State targets in eastern Syria — the first time each state has carried out such actions in the multi-sided Syrian war.

In a statement, the Syrian army said a «large numbers of terrorists» had been killed and that a number of their headquarters,...

In the past, the Syrian Electronic Army has targeted social media accounts of media companies and public figures including the Associated Press, CNN and President Obama.

Perhaps most shockingly, footage emerged of Free Syrian Army rebels (FSA), the group with arguably the closest ties to Washington, ordering US Special Forces out of the town of Al - Rai in northern Syria, screaming in the process that «Christians and Americans have no place among us.»

Even worse, US air strikes that were first believed to have mistakenly killed 60 Syrian troops instead of IS now appear to have killed regime prisoners forced to put on Syrian army uniforms.

«The reports that are on TV about... well, you know, about Syria and the 25 people that are wounded there from the Syrian f — army and — well... to make it short, we've had our asses f — kicked.

AMMAN (Reuters)- The Syrian army said on Sunday that rockets had struck several military bases in the Hama and Aleppo countryside in what it said was new «aggression» by its enemies, state television said.

Assad noted that the Russian - backed Syrian army was now «very close» to Raqqa city after advancing to the western banks of the Euphrates River this week — a rapid gain that has brought it to the frontier of areas held by the U.S. - backed forces.

While Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbor's 7 - year - old civil war, the nation has neither confirmed nor denied the raid.

Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times during the Syrian civil war, hitting convoys and bases of Iranian - backed militias that fight alongside Assad's forces.

«Afrin city centre is under control as of 8:30 this morning,» Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a rally commemorating the World War One Gallipoli campaign, adding that Turkish and Free Syrian Army flags had been raised in the town centre.

There is some confusion over where Gharba's allegiances currently lie, but there is broad agreement that at the time the video was made in 2014, he was a member of the Free Syrian Army - an anti-Assad group that has enjoyed the support of US intelligence agencies.

The reason for the celebration is twofold (both dating back to c. 165 BCE): the miraculous military victory of the small, ill - equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; and the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple's menorah instead of just one.»

6 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots, and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said one to another, «Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us.»

Since the Syrian army launched an offensive starting late last week (when the ceasefire ended), dozens of airstrikes have hit the rebel - held city of Aleppo city in Syria.

Having preached the sovereign grace of God — grace for a Syrian army officer or a poor pagan woman at Zarephath — Jesus demonstrates that he is free even from the community that professes to be people of the Book.

And, in the military struggle against the government, the clear lines of distinction that the West wants to see between the National Coalition - linked Free Syrian Army and the Islamist factions have been blurred several times.

Simultaneously, the Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah group have revealed a similar campaign to rid IS from the Qalamoun mountains on the Syrian side of the border.

Most groups that originally manifest secular aspects have now been tinted with Islamic radicalism, including the Free Syrian Army, which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The main aim of the mission has been accomplished, the rebels no longer pose a direct military threat to the survival of the Assad regime and the gains made against the rebels are solid enough to be maintained by the Syrian army itself.

Clearly the G8 nations would be wary of arming said factions of the Syrian Free Army.

She has been tear - gassed in Bahrain; she has spent a night in a tent city with a Yemeni woman who would later share the Nobel Peace Prize; and she spent weeks inside Syria with anti-government rebels known as the Free Syrian Army.

By treating all races and religions with fairness, the good King Baldwin (Edward Norton, unrecognisable behind mask and make - up) and his loyal general Tiberias (Jeremy Irons) have managed to maintain a truce with Saladin (Ghassan Massoud), the equally wise ruler of the mighty Syrian army of Saracens — but Baldwin, crippled by leprosy, does not have long to live, and the Muslim - hating Knights Templar, led by power - hungry Guy de Lusignan (Marton Csokas) and his cruel lieutenant Reynald de Chatillon (Brendan Gleeson), are engaged in a covert campaign of terror.

«Stacking playing cards can be done with as few as two cards,» says one volunteer card - stacking teacher who would only identify himself as «Idra» for fear of being construed as conducting a political activity and suffering reprisals by Hamas, Israeli settlers, the Shabiha, ISIS, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and its affiliates, the Israeli Army, the Mossad, both the Syrian Army and the Free Syrian Army, the CIA, MI6, the Iranian Army, the mukhabarat of every country previously named plus Jordan, both the secret and non-secret Egyptian police, and western drone strikes.