BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman Saturday, nearing the end of his six-year term, called once again on Hezbollah to withdraw from Syria and commit to the Baabda Declaration, saying cooperation between the president and the resistance group was needed, but within certain limits....

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(Reuters) - One of President Bashar al-Assad's two challengers in next month's election praised his military campaign against Islamist rebels but said Syria must do more to maintain ties with the West and rebuild its economy after three years of war. Hassan al-Nouri said...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl) Many members of the western-backed National Coalition said that the opposition leader Ahmed Jarba has retracted his intention for a second term extension. Source said before that NC...