JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Published — Wednesday 26 February 2014 ARABNEWS.COM Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh called upon Saudis to give their Zakat to Syrian refugees as the Kingdom […]
National Editorial THE NATIONAL February 24, 2014 Updated: February 24, 2014 18:11:00 It is difficult to form a clear picture of the dynamics of the Syrian conflict on the ground, especially when it comes to the different jihadi groups that are fighting the regime and, more recently, each other. […]
July 12, 2013 08:37 PMBy Serene Assir STORY SUMMARY Simmering hostility between Syria’s mainstream rebels and jihadists has erupted into naked violence, with a Free Syrian Army commander in the coastal province of Latakia being shot dead by an Al-Qaeda front group. Kamal Hamami — better known by his nom-de-guerre Abu […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent No one in the Middle East will be studying Ukraine’s violent tragedy with more fascination – and deeper concern – than President Bashar al-Assad of […]
STORY SUMMARY Moscow accused Washington Thursday of prolonging the Syrian conflict by supporting the opposition, on the eve of a UN Security Council vote that threatens to further deepen big […]
February 20, 2014 12:11 AMBy David Ignatius STORY SUMMARY Western and Arab intelligence services that support Syria’s struggling opposition gathered for a two-day strategy meeting in Washington last week that appears to signal a stronger effort to back the rebels. Sources warn that President Barack Obama is still wary of […]
Source: Ibtida Pakistan shakes Hands with KSA against Syria تحریر: ٹیپو یوسفزئی ہمارے بھولے بادشاہ سمجھ رہے تھے کہ تخت سعود والے تخت لاہور کے پاس مشرف صاحب کی جان […]
Moderate rebels say the Syrian president is secretly working with a rogue al-Qaeda group in the country’s brutal civil war. But are Sunni jihadists really in bed with the Assad […]
STORY SUMMARY by Erika Solomon Daily Star Lebanon Pictures of rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar Assad laughing and shaking hands after a local cease-fire have sparked outrage on […]
DAMASCUS: The Free Syrian Army has sacked its military chief after the Western-backed rebels suffered battlefield setbacks, amid signs the warring parties are escalating the fighting that has already killed […]
By Fars News Agency Global Research, February 17, 2014 Fars News Agency After its failure in coaxing the US into war on Syria, Saudi Arabia is now attempting to persuade the Arab League (AL) to issue permission for military attack against the crisis-hit country, Arab media reports said. “The Saudi regime […]
By Rami G. Khouri (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) Several months ago when I wrote about the looming danger of the growing strength of Salafist-takfiri groups in Iraq and Syria, I focused on the threats that thousands of their fighters, bombers and terrorists posed to those countries and also to […]
Syria: The Chaos of War Damascus Will the walls fall? By Anne Barnard Photograph by Andrea Bruce In the rectangular courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, the heart of Old Damascus, women swathed in black sit and chat on the cream-colored stone floor, polished smooth by the comings and goings of […]
SOURCE: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/syria-peace-talks-end-deadlock-2014215112455622202.html A Syrian activist group says the death toll in Syria’s three-year-old civil war has reached 140,000 [Reuters] Syria’s government and opposition have agreed on an agenda for a third round of peace talks in Geneva, but there has been no date set for the resumption of negotiations, […]
February 13, 2014 By David Ignatius STORY SUMMARY The Syria tragedy embodies a deeper intellectual failure. What is missing in Syria is an animating strategic framework that could power a U.S.-led coalition. Instead, we have a conflict driven by sectarian hatred between Sunnis and Shiites, which in […]
STORY SUMMARY The Syrian opposition called on Wednesday for a transitional governing body to be set up that would oversee a total cease-fire under U.N. monitoring, and be empowered to […]
Alarabiya – A Lebanese boy decided to donate his birthday money to a charity organization that buys and distributes shoes to Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon. Rakan, a young […]
| Wednesday, 5 February 2014 February 05: US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was making gains on the ground, but denied US policy in Syria was failing. “It’s fair to say that Assad has improved his position a little bit, yes. But […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies February 5, 2014 – 17:16 Syrian refugees have been welcomed into homes in cantons Basel City and Aargau for the first time, a move that could soon follow in other parts of the country, according to the Swiss Refugee Council. The council made a public appeal last […]
STORY SUMMARY Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said Wednesday that rebels would soon receive advanced weapons because they have been waging a two-front war against regime troops and militant extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). In Washington, Kerry admitted that Assad was making gains […]