Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The regime of President Bashar Assad has returned to northern Syria near the border with Turkey. Assad regime forces have captured a key town near the Turkish border. Military sources said the Syrian Army as well as the National Defense Forces drove Sunni rebels out of Kassab in the Latakia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Bashar Assad has lost a close relative as well as a leading commander in the war against Sunni rebels in Syria. Opposition sources said Hilal Assad was killed by a sniper in the northern city town of Kassab near Latakia. The sources said the 46-year-old Hilal was a first […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey, preparing for a military invasion, has shot down a Syrian military aircraft. Turkey said the Syrian warplane violated the air space of the NATO member when it was downed on March 23. Officials said the Syrian aircraft was conducting a bombing mission near the Turkish border, where the Army […]