Opponents of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have been at an impossible disadvantage since the start of the Syrian conflict because the United States and Britain refused to help them, an influential Saudi Arabian prince said on Saturday. The United States and Britain suspended...
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday that the moderate opposition to the Syrian regime was in "serious difficulty" and that long-delayed peace talks aimed at ending the crisis were in trouble. "The moderate opposition that we support is in serious difficulty," Fabius said...
A Danish and a Norwegian frigate are anchored in the Cypriot port of Limassol awaiting orders to sail for Syria and help collect part of the regime's deadly chemical arsenal. When the call comes, they will escort two cargo ships -- one from each country -- to Syria's Latakia, where...
A rebel commander has frozen to death due to the biting cold brought by a snowstorm that has swept Syria this week, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that "the body of...
