A little more than a week after the extremists linked to Al-Qaeda by our own US government set up and murdered Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States would send an additional $45 mil
Syrian insurgents detonated bombs at a building occupied by pro-government militias in Damascus and France called for U.N. protection of rebel-held areas to help end Syria's bloodshed and rights abuses.
The armed forces of Syria and Jordan clashed after Syria fired into Jordanian territory, where thousands of refugees have fled from an 18-month-long civil war. The Syrian army has moved its brigade to block any possible attack from Israel to the
In late August, Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi proposed the formation of a regional initiative to stem the conflict in Syria. Five decades ago, Egypt and Syria were yoked together to form the United Arab Republic, an experiment that lasted less
Syrian rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, ripping down the Syrian flag as the rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad expand their control of the country’s north.
Mr. Morsi, an Islamist and Egypt’s first democratically elected president, fired back at Mr. Assad days after the top Syrian government spokesman said the only change in Cairo since the ouster last year of Hosni Mubarak was Mr. Morsi’s beard.
More than 100,000 Syrians fled their country last month, a sharp acceleration of the exodus prompted by 18 months of conflict, the United Nations said, adding renewed urgency to the mission of a new peace envoy given dim prospects for success.
China said on Tuesday the situation in Syria was worsening but that it still opposed any outside armed intervention in the country, ahead of a visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Their involvement in Syria is the first battle in what is going to be a long bloody conflict that will know no frontiers or limits.
Supporters of the Syrian government hacked the Web site of Amnesty International, posting items that falsely accused the rebels of a string of atrocities. The sophisticated cyberattack was similar to the targeting of Reuters news service.
An underground network of Syrian opposition activists is receiving training and supplies of vital equipment from a combined American and British effort to forge an effective alternative to the Damascus regime.
In late August the Pentagon announced a contingency plan is in place for seizing Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal should President Obama order them to do so, and that the plan involves sending “small teams” of special operations forces into Syria.
Almost three years ago I wrote an analytical piece on the concept of deliberately engineering wars, big and small, by elitists to distract the masses away from particular global developments that work to the benefit of the establishment power structu
Syria is preparing to complete a deal with ally Russia to secure much-needed oil products to keep its economy and military running, the head of a Syrian delegation to Russia said on Tuesday, weeks after he said an agreement had been reached.
United Nations military observers left Damascus on Monday after a four-month mission in which they became helpless spectators of Syria's spiraling conflict, instead of monitoring a ceasefire between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels.
Jordan’s information minister says 4 Syrian rockets have fallen on a northern Jordanian border town, slightly wounding a 4-year-old girl. Sameeh Maaytah says the Jordanian girl was treated for shrapnel wounds and then released from the hospital.
The United States and Turkey indicated they were studying a range of possible measures over Syria, including a no-fly zone, as battles between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces shook Aleppo and the heart of Damascus