Objective gives hope for peace and will create the necessary environment for a political settlement, Russian spokesperson tells reporters
Main political opposition says FSA will deal “positively” with truce but stressed rebel groups have the right to defend Syrians and the revolution against regime aggression
Group’s deputy general dismisses truce as a deal which forfeits the sacrifices and gains of the revolutionary people while working to benefit the Assad regime
All “fleeing” capital has its own reasons, but the final result is the flight of capital and the stopping of the wheel of production in the Syrian economy
The opposition meets with high-level diplomatic figures in London to discuss its three-stage political vision, which includes six months of negotiations, a transition period lasting 18 months, and ending in elections
Lebanese newspaper says Putin and Obama bear responsibility for Erdogan and Assad failing to meet
If what we hear is true, the solution is based on acknowledging the status quo and surrendering to the rule of the current regime despite the killing, destruction and displacement that it has carried out over the last five years.
“It does not seem that Obama is far from joining the list of the Russian president’s fans, especially in that he was keen throughout his second term, which witnessed a terrible escalation in the brutality of the Assad regime against its opposition, to stand on the side of the victors”
“What happened recently for the Turkish leadership to decide to send its tanks and soldiers inside Syrian territory and support some of the rebel groups to regain Jarablus from ISIS?”
Regime to open roads to residents and opposition fighters who wish to relocate to rebel-held Idleb
Rise in domestic tourism can be attributed to expansion of safe areas following Syrian army advances, says minister
Top diplomats meet on sidelines of G20 summit in Chinese city of Hangzhou
Lavrov stresses importance of differentiating between “opposition groups supported by the United States and the terrorists whom the opposition use as a shield,” during phone call with Kerry
Turkish PM says all relevant parties, including the regime of Bashar Assad, were informed of Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield to prevent the establishment of a Kurdish corridor
Until recently, Damascus saw the Kurds as an ally able to help pressure a wide geographical area that needed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and at the same time would constitute a thorn in the Turkish throat, which was greedy to swallow Syrian geography and people at the same time.
Sources claim Russian warplanes hit rebel-held areas of Idleb with internationally banned weapons
Foreign ministry spokeswoman says Russia condemns opposition’s “inhumane stunt” to disrupt a UN aid convoy to citizens of Aleppo
The clashes that have erupted in Hassakeh between the Kurdish PYD militia and the forces of Assad’s mafia regime may be one of the swift results of this common approach and a first indication of the new understandings between Turkey and Russia, which Iran may not be far from.
Nusra’s recent effort to rebrand itself under a new name does not change the fact it is a terrorist organization, top US diplomat tells journalists
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