Tag: Armenians

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:30 P.M.) - Armenian members of the Syrian Parliament have arrived in Sochi, today, to participate in the Russian-sponsored peace conference. Parliamentarians Nora Arisyan and Zhirayr Reisyan will ...

The Armenians have a long history in the Syrian economic capital of Aleppo, dating back to the 11th Century A.D. when the Seljuk Turks captured Byzantine controlled Armenia, creating the first ...

Damascus, SANA – Under the patronage of President Bashar al-Assad, the cornerstone of a memorial of the victims of the Armenian Genocide was laid Sunday in the Old City of Damascus. The ...

US President Barack Obama on Thursday described the World War I massacre of Armenians as "terrible carnage", but avoided the term genocide, as tempers flared ahead of the 100th anniversary ...

The Syrian Al-Qaeda group "Jabhat Al-Nusra" - in coordination with Harakat 'Ahrar Al-Sham - has launched another offensive at the predominately Armenian village of Kassab on the Turkish border. The attack began ...

Vatican, SANA – Pope Francis stressed Sunday that the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule 100 years ago amounted to “genocide”. Speaking at a Vatican church service in Rome, ...

Earlier today, militants from the Islamic Front’s (Jabhat Al-Islamiyya) largest milita “Harakat ‘Ahrar Al-Sham” (Liberators of the Levant Movement) fired multiple mortar shells at the St. Rita Cathedral in the ...

Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) militants have destroyed another historical and religious landmark; this time it was the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church located in the Deir Ezzor Governate ...

The Syrian Air Force has carried out multiple airstrikes on ISIS positions near the predominately Kurdish area of Kobane ('Ayn Al-'Arab) on the Turkish border. The airstrikes targeted ISIS contingents ...