The Syrian National Coalition is living on borrowed time. Unless it can develop credible political leadership and effective administration inside Syria, the outlook for those trying to make it succeed looks bleak
Zoubi says presidential elections do not contradict the Geneva communiqué
Jaafari says Syrian authorities intercepted phone calls between rebels planning the attack
Assad uses Alawites as human shields for the defence of the interests of one family
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”
Engaging directly with Syria presents a risky strategy for Erdogan
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
Nikolay Kozhanov is Professor of Political Economy at St. Petersbourg University
Some researchers connect Blackwater to the killing of demonstrators in different Arab countries
Coalition ambassador in Qatar says Friends of Syria countries encouraged to recognize the new passports
The Syrian revolution enters its fourth year with questions on the country’s future still pending
Al Attiyah says the Iranian tone has changed towards Assad
The exchange operation to release the nuns of Maaloula was an admission of children’s detention
U.S. and European policymakers should look beyond the objectives of the Geneva II conference on Syria and implement a comprehensive strategy to push the conflict toward a settlement
The regime leased the most important productive sector, the port of Latakia, to a French company, which led to hundreds of workers losing their jobs
Nine rebel groups say Idriss is the legitimate leader of the FSA
Syrian delegates say Geneva was not designed to discuss humanitarian aid
Syria’s armed conflict escalated even further in 2013 as the government intensified its attacks and began using increasingly deadly and indiscriminate weapons, culminating in a chemical weapons attack on the Damascus countryside on August 21
