By Karen DeYoung, Published: December 25 Planning for the day after the anticipated fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has become a race against time that many proponents of a pluralistic, democratic Syria fear they are losing. In Washington, Istanbul and elsewhere, opposition activists and their supporters are establishing databases […]
Bomb kills 5 in capital as fighting continues at Palestinian camp BEIRUT — Syria’s civil war has reached a stalemate and international efforts to persuade President Bashar Assad to quit […]
An eerie silence hangs over what was once a busy highway that cuts through the mountains and makes for Latakia city By Ruth Sherlock, Latakia province The Telegraph Abu Yassin, […]
Source: Asia Times: By Victor Kotsev A day after the United States and more than 100 countries formally recognized the new Syrian opposition council as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people, American officials told The New York Times that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had fired […]
Bashar’s father Hafez al-Assad was brutal but never used chemical arms. And do you know which was the first army to use gas in the Middle East? by Robert Fisk, The Independent The bigger the lie the more people will believe it. We all know who said that – but […]
Source: Asia Times: By Victor Kotsev Amid significant rebel advances and indications that a partition of Syria might happen in the next months, the government army reportedly readied chemical weapons for use last week. The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance responded with harsh warnings and […]
Story Summary; Syria’s crisis has caused a stalemate in the relation between Hezbollah and Hamas, Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official in Lebanon told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency Saturday. However, Hamas […]
The Daily Star, Lebanon The accelerating pace of events inside Syria has raised expectations that Bashar Assad’s regime is on the verge of collapsing, though nobody seems to know when and how this will happen, or how the post-Assad transition will play out. The regime is fatally injured, because it […]
Wednesday 30 May 2012 ARABNEWS MOSCOW: Russia criticized Western nations yesterday for expelling Syrian envoys, calling the move “counterproductive,” and warned them not to seek new UN Security Council action […]
BY: Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid OPINION ARABNEWS It is not natural for the Israeli political and military establishment just to watch the events and violence taking place along its borders. During the past one year, the Israeli government did not spell out any stand on the Syrian revolution, although it was […]
By ABDUL RAHMAN AL-RASHID ARABNEWS Syrian political activist living in exile Michel Kilo believes that the available alternative after the downfall of President Bashar Assad is an internal war turning into a protracted regional one involving the two superpowers. This was what he wrote in his article in Asharq Al-Awsat, […]
By Michael Young The Daily Star, Lebanon Which devotee of the anti-globalization left, enlivened by anti-Americanism, could resist a frisson of pleasure when watching Julian Assange interview Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, […]
The Middle East expert and former member of the German Bundestag for the CDU party, Juergen Todenhoefer (Jürgen Todenhöfer), has sharply criticized the one-sided coverage of many media about the […]
A document released by the WikiLeaks website has revealed that undercover US-led NATO forces are operating inside Syria against the Syrian government. Source: Press TV WikiLeaks released a confidential email from an analyst working for the US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, in which he claims to have attended a meeting in […]