06/08/2015

The violent clashes between the regime forces, backed by Hezbollah, armed villagers and allied militiamen of Arab, Syrian and Asian nationalities against Jabhat al- Nusra, Jund al- Aqsa, Ahrar al- Sham, Junud al- Sham al- Shishan, Ajnad al-…

On August 2, Britain’s Sunday Expressnewspaper headlined “SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on jihadis,” saying: “More than 120 members belonging to the elite regiment are currently in the war-torn country” covertly “dressed…

The military tribunal sentenced two Syrian nationals in absentia and a Lebanese citizen, who is in custody, in connection with a Syria-bound cargo ship laden with arms that was seized in 2012 in Lebanese territorial waters, a judicial…

Such an outcome would effectively mean that the regime is restricted to a strip of territory in the west By Joseph A. Kechichian, Senior writer Notwithstanding the self-created confusion in the United…

The Daily Star     BEIRUT: The military tribunal sentenced two Syrian nationals in absentia and a Lebanese citizen, who is in custody, in connection with a Syria-bound cargo ship laden with arms that was seized in 2012 in Lebanese…

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran will soon submit a four-point plan to end the Syrian civil war to the United Nations, its deputy foreign minister said Wednesday. State-run news agency IRNA quoted Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying the new initiative…

The United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Friday on a U.S. proposal to ask U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and the global chemical weapons watchdog to assemble a team of investigators to lay blame for toxic gas attacks in Syria,…

Australia will continue to support a struggling Iraq with military assistance out of its Middle East base rather than turn attention to Syria despite the new Turkish-American deal that has opened up two strategic airfields in south east…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he hopes an agreement reached with Russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in Syria will hold the perpetrators accountable. Speaking Thursday in Malaysia, Kerry said he and Russian Foreign…

Rif Dimashq Province: Violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces and allied militiamen against the rebel and Islamist factions around the city of Darayya in the Western Ghouta, accompanied by shelling by the regime…