Candidates applying for the nomination need to be have been residents of Syria for at least ten consecutive years
Chief opposition negotiator criticizes statement by former U.S. ambassador Ford blaming the opposition
On the morning of March 9 this year, a few men carried an empty coffin through the streets, topped with the picture of a young woman, Wesam, 22 years old
Syrian foreign ministry complains to the U.N. in two formal letters
Jarba was speaking during a meeting with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Mother Superior Pelagia Sayyaf: “The nuns are living their lives normally, waiting for the security conditions to be conductive to a return to our convent in Maaloula”
Putin says normalizing the situation in the Middle East will contribute to lasting regional peace
Brahimi will not call for a third round of Geneva II talks unless he is certain that it would be productive
The NCC says the Coalition does not represent the whole opposition
The Kuwaiti role involved not only creating military operation rooms and directing the course of certain battles, but also giving direct orders to commit massacres and then boasting about them
Jarba says the battle against the regime is now one against Iran, Hezbollah and Iraqi militias
Activists warned people not to leave homes, fearing revenge attacks from Shabbiha forces
Israel continues to ban Syrian citizens in the Golan from visiting their families in Syria via the Quneitra crossing
The Sharia court was established in a meeting spearheaded by five elders and lawyers and attended by leaders of military groups and the city’s notables after regime forces withdrew
Syria denounces move as “blatant aggression”
Letters to the U.N. say Saudi counter-terror legislation lacks credibility
Nikolaos van Dam is the author of The Struggle for Political Power in Syria and former ambassador of the Netherlands to various Middle Eastern countries
Mohammad Kassem writes for The Syrian Observer on a successful local council experience in Northern syria
ISIS took advantage of the withdrawal of the Ahrar al Sham and Jabhat Al Nusra groups at the end of September 2012 and turned the province’s entire life
Skaif was killed in regime prisons after several months in detention
