By Alissa de Carbonnel and Peter Graff MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The international mediator touting a peace plan for Syria warned on Saturday of “hell” if the warring sides shun talks, and Moscow blamed the foes of President Bashar al-Assad for refusing to negotiate. U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in […]
Source: BBC Lieutenant-General Abdulaziz al-Shalal announced his defection in a video posted on YouTube. The commander of Syria’s military police has defected from President Bashar-al Assad’s government and reportedly fled to Turkey. Lt Gen Abulaziz al-Shalal is one of the highest-ranking officials to join the uprising against the Syrian regime.The […]
(Reuters) – Special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi met with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Monday to discuss a solution to the country’s 21-month-old conflict. Brahimi told journalists after the meeting that he discussed the situation in Syria overall and gave his views on how to solve the crisis. […]
A Russian official has said for the first time that the Syrian government may be defeated by opposition forces. President Bashar al-Assad’s forces are “losing more and more control and territory”, deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Thursday. Russia was also making plans for a possible evacuation of thousands […]
THE Syrian government has warned that rebels could use chemical weapons in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, and insists that the regime would never unleash such arms on its own people. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, however, said there was evidence the Damascus government could actually employ chemical […]
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 […]