Israel threatens to bomb Syria in response to Tishreen missiles aimed at Tel Aviv
Asharq Al-Awsat
May 21, 2013
Escalating tensions between the two neighbors as Syria responds to three recent Israeli attacks
Escalating tensions between the two neighbors as Syria responds to three recent Israeli attacks
After two years of unprecedented violence, Bashar Al-Assad has managed to drag the revolution into a cycle of murder and revenge.
Moaz Al-Khatib is considering re-running for the presidency of the Syrian National Coalition if the body was adequately expanded
The National Coordination Commission for Democratic Change (NCC), Hassan Abdulazim said Monday the group will propose new ideas and to the regional and international participate in proposed international conference to solve the Syrian crisis.
Below is the full interview as published by SANA, the state’s news agency, of an interview given by President Bashar Al-Assad to Argentinian daily, Clarin.
Mariam Hallaq is one of tens of thousands of women who lost their sons or daughters in the Syrian revolution. Her son Ayham was killed by security agents and shabeeha when he was arrested from his Medical School in Damascus University. He was 23. Below is an interview with the grieving mother.
Visitors crossing from Turkey to Ras al-Ayn, a sleepy border town in eastern Syria, are now welcomed by the unlikeliest of characters: a Catholic member of what is considered an extremist Islamist rebel group.
An-Nahar newspaper asked the opposition Syrian National Coalition and the National Coordination Commission (NCC) to speculate about possible scenarios at ‘Geneva 2’.
The regime and Hezbollah launched a broad attack on Al-Qusayr from the Lebanese borders Sunday, raising fears about civilian casualties.
Businessman and former regime ally, Firas Tlass, triggers an initiative to end the crisis in syria
A pro-government paper calls for opening the Golan front with the Israelis
A pro government newspaper, al-Watan, calls for the opening of the Golan front with the Israelis
Syria’s pro-Assad Grand Mufti says the US can’t be an honest mediator seeking the attainment of peaceful settlement in Syria
The Syrian government estimates the total value of the damages to Syrian infrastructure until the end of March 2013 at SYP 1158 billion
Syrian press editorials today lashed on Qatar and Turkey, as we;; as the “American backtracking” on the commitments it offered at the first meeting in Moscow
19 regional and international human rights organizations urge the international community to exert pressure on the Syrian authorities to release activist Mazen Darwish and two of his colleagues from the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression
Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said Wednesday internal national dialogue is the only means to reach a political solution, to stop the bloodshed and the destruction of the state in Syria.
The Syrian regime is working to form a political opposition coalition in Damascus made up of the so called ‘tolerated opposition’ with the aim of including it in talks based on the 2012 Geneva communique towards forming a transition government.
The Syrian press call Turkish PM to resign and accuses the opposition of contacting Israel
Syria’s U.N. envoy, Bashar al-Jaafari said Wednesday the draft resolution on Syria submitted to the U.N. General Assembly aims to inflame the current crisis.
