Evidence has been found suggesting that Syria’s military used chemical weapons against its own people last month, in what one Israeli intelligence official said last night was a test to gauge the reaction of the US and its allies.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov strongly criticized the statements on the responsibility of the Syrian government forces for the terrorist attack which targeted Aleppo University on Tuesday, describing them as “repulsive and unscrupulous”.
Assad the dictator is no fan of justice. He knows that he can manipulate democracy by naming it the ‘popular democracy’ and reducing it to supervised and rigged elections. Assad can also mold ‘patriotism’ and ‘resistance,’ as needed turning them into mere clichés set against ‘Zionism’ and ‘colonialism.’ As for justice: it has but one meaning. It is this meaning that Assad is trying to escape.
A Palestinian who fled Syria to Lebanon committed suicide overnight, apparently after receiving news that his mother’s health was rapidly deteriorating in a Damascus hospital, his wife said Wednesday.
Syria and Iran agree on $1 billion credit facility focusing on energy and electricity.
Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Wednesday upon the UN and the UN Security Council member states to condemn the terrorist crimes in Syria, including the massacre committed against Aleppo University students, employees and citizens who took refuge there.
Charity organizations are highly reputable in Syria and may be considered the oldest forms of civil society in the country.
The Syrian government and opposition accused each other of a massacre in the University of Aleppo that killed at least 52 people on Tuesday.
Ahmadinejad meets Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi in Tehran and says the Syrian people will overcome the difficult conditions adding “Syria will cross the crisis it encounters into the land of safety.”
Assad appoints governors for two provinces that are out of the regime’s control
The Syrian Coalition presents a draft vision for a transitional period based on a controlled gradual transition of power, ensuring that governmental institutions continue working in full function, troops withdrawal to their bases, collection of weapons from civilians, and mobilizing national efforts towards rebuilding Syria.
The Kurdish National Council (KNC) will hold its second conference on January 10 to discuss the Kurdish position vis-à-vis Islamist groups and other Kurdish groups.
The Kurdish National Council (KNC) will hold its second conference on January 10 to discuss the Kurdish position vis-à-vis Islamist groups and other Kurdish groups.
Alawite families living in Damascus are fearing retaliatory measures in the event of the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime
After President Bashar al-Assad tasked the government to implement executive steps for the political program for resolving the crisis in Syria, the Cabinet held an extraordinary session chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Wael al-Halqi on Tuesday to discuss mechanism and steps for implementing this program.
The ruling al-Baath Party and other pro-government parties praised President Assad’s speech last Sunday, and described it as an “expression of the Syrian people and their desire for preserving Syria’s unity, reclaiming its role, and building its future.” In the meantime, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi renewed a call for opposition figures to enter into a dialogue for peace offered by President Bashar Assad, despite domestic and rebel groups already rejecting the proposal.
Interior Minister Mohamad al-Shaar appeared on the Syrian official TV for the first time after he was severely wounded in an attack that the Syrian rebels waged at his Ministry in Damascus last month. He had cut short his treatment at a Beirut hospital and returned home for fear of being arrested by Lebanese authorities.
Because Syria is a country of paramount importance, the issue there is not just about toppling the regime, while retaining the same inherited and historical structure, including the ideology, of the regime itself. Indeed, we are dealing here with a smaller version of countries like Germany and Japan after the Second World War, in that they were countries whose internal circumstances led them to destabilise their regions and subsequently the world.
Hasan Abdul Azim, Coordinator –general of the National Coordination Commission (NCC) rejected in a press conference he held in Damascus any “direct dialogue or negotiations with the regime,” stressing that negotiations can only happen through the UN Envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi expressed his country’s support to President Bashar al-Assad’s initiative to resolve the crisis in Syria.
