I WILL never know when or why Hakim Anza, a Syrian rebel commander whom I had once trusted, decided to betray me. I would hazard a guess that three years of savage war, combined with reports — rampant in every bazaar of northern Syria — of huge sums paid for...

The rise of jihadists in Iraq has set the West on edge, but Damascus sees it is an opportunity to legitimise its battle against rebels and promote it as a war on "terror". President Bashar al-Assad's regime has repeatedly denied the existence of a revolt seeking political...

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 (Writing by Abdullah Raja; Transation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL-(Zaman Alwasl)- If Ahmad Jarba, the President of the National Coalition, and Mostafa Sabbagh, the former Secretary General left the competition for the Coalition presidency...