Iranian currency tracking websites and street traders say the rial lost about 17 percent of its value against the dollar on Monday — another apparent indication that Western sanctions are hurting the Iranian economy. The rial weakened to about 34,500 per dollar in Monday trading on the black market, compared to Sunday’s rate of about […]
Iran’s Currency Loses 17 Percent of Value in One Day
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 8:20 pm (UTC-5)
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Activists: Syrian Government Air Strike Kills 21 in Northern Town
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 4:25 pm (UTC-5)
Syrian rights activists say government warplanes have bombed a northern town near the Turkish border, killing 21 people, as heavy fighting spread within the old city of Aleppo, Syria’s commercial capital. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from Monday’s air strike in Salqin included eight children. In a video released […]
Syria Air Strike Kills 21
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 12:45 pm (UTC-5)
Syrian government warplanes have bombed a northern town near the Turkish border, killing 21 people, as heavy fighting spread within Aleppo’s historic old city. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from Monday’s attack in Salqin included eight children. In a video released by activists from the town, a number of […]
Syria Air Strike Kills 21
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
Syrian government warplanes have bombed a northern town near the Turkish border, killing 21 people, as heavy fighting spread within Aleppo’s historic old city. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from Monday’s attack in Salqin included eight children. In a video released by activists from the town, a number of […]
Syrian Activists Say Government Bombing Kills 12
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 4:40 am (UTC-5)
Syrian rights activists say government troops have bombed a town in northern Syria, killing at least 12 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from the attack Monday in Salqin, near the Turkish border, included five children. Another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, said the attack killed 30 people. […]
Suicide Bombing Widens Syrian Conflict to Kurdish Northeast
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 10:40 pm (UTC-5)
Syria’s civil war appeared to widen to the country’s mainly Kurdish northeast on Sunday, with a suicide car bomber killing several people in a rare attack on a Syrian Kurdish town near the Turkish border. Syrian state media said at least four people were killed in the blast in Qamishli, while the British-based Syrian Observatory […]
Bomb Attacks Kill 32 Across Iraq
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 12:55 pm (UTC-5)
Iraqi officials say a wave of bombings struck Shi’ite neighborhoods, security forces and other targets across the country Sunday, killing at least 32 people and wounding scores of others. At least eight cities and towns were hit. The deadliest attack occurred in Taji, a former al-Qaida stronghold just north of the capital, Baghdad. Three car […]
Suicide Car Bomb Strikes Syrian Kurdish-Area
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 11:55 am (UTC-5)
A suicide car bomb exploded in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli Sunday, in the first such attack in the country’s Kurdish region which has been kept out of the conflict between opposition rebels and the government. Syrian state television said the afternoon blast killed at least four people and wounded scores of others. The […]
Wave of Bomb Attacks Kills 26 in Iraq
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC-5)
Iraqi officials say a wave of bombings struck Shi’ite neighborhoods, security forces and other targets across the country Sunday, killing at least 26 people and wounding scores of others. At least eight cities and towns were hit. The deadliest attack occurred in Taji, a former al-Qaida stronghold just north of the capital, Baghdad. Three car […]
Battles Continue, Fire Rages in Syria’s Aleppo
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 7:05 am (UTC-5)
Syrian activists said Sunday overnight fighting between rebels and government forces has killed at least three people in Aleppo, the country’s most populous city. Earlier, a fire sparked by battles between the two sides has destroyed shops in Aleppo’s historic, centuries-old marketplace. Rebels announced a new offensive against government troops in Aleppo on Thursday, but […]
