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President Obama’s decision to seek Congressional approval for a military strike in response to reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria drew a range of reactions from Syrians on Sunday, with rebel leaders expressing disappointment and goverment leaders questioning Mr. Obama’s leadership....
Syria’s top leaders amassed one of the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons with help from the Soviet Union and Iran, as well as Western European suppliers and even a handful of American companies, according to American diplomatic cables and declassified intelligence records....
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected claims that he was behind a purported chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb in August, in an interview with U.S. based CBS News on Sunday. “There has been no evidence that I used chemical weapons against my own people,” CBS reported Assad as...
Iran's foreign minister slammed potential US-led airstrikes against Syria as "illegal" on a visit to Baghdad Sunday, while his Iraqi counterpart warned they would hinder efforts towards a political solution. Mohammad Javed Zarif said military action was barred under the United Nations...
The White House is making a big push to rally members of Congress and the American public behind President Barack Obama's plan for a U.S. military strike against Syria. His administration says the government of Syrian President Bassar Assad used chemical weapons in an attack last month...
A well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl that a consultative meeting took place yesterday in Tal Rifa’at town, Aleppo countryside, to discuss the possibility of merging both “al-Fateh” and “al-Tawheed” brigades together under one faction. According to the sources, it is...
It is predicted that the Syrian intelligence has been trying to identify members of opposition and in particular members of the Syrian National Council and to estimate their properties and wealth in Syria. That has been confirmed by the document directed from the Head of the Office...
Syrian rebels, including jihadists, have taken control of the historic Christian town of Maalula, north of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog and a resident said on Sunday. "Overnight, Syrian regime troops moved into the village, but rebel forces sent reinforcements...
Forests are being burned Assad's continuous shelling on the coastal mountainous of Turkmans and Kurds, Local source reported to Zaman Alwasl. The rebels suffer the lack of most basic means of firefighting; they depend on water cannons. Activists...
Men sprawled on a tile floor, shirtless and convulsing. Children, too, seemingly unable to control their shaking and flailing. Panic and screams in the background. These are some of the hard-to-stomach images that the Obama administration has shown a select group of...
How chemical weapons were used in Syria 1,700 years ago by Persian attackers to kill Roman soldiers defending their city - Persians may have used poisoned gas to kill Roman soldiers during siege. - They pumped a compound of bitumen and sulfur into...
Grandson of Prince Abdulkader al-Jazaeri facing death sentence by Syrian regime Activists repeated their call to highlight the fact that the grandson of Prince Abdelkader al-Jazaeri facing death sentence on the hands of the authorities in Syrian regime, as he was arrested many...
As a considerable number of The Democratic Bloc, Headed by Michael Kilo, became members in the national Coalition and combined with electing Ahmed Jarba, who is closed to Kilo, as Head of the Coalition, Kilo became the most prominent and effective person in the Coalition, even...
They are very modest he said, they live simple life, all their time is devoted to support and supply the FSA brigades inside Syria, Zaman Alwasl reporter, Abdullah Raja, said in a brief Perspective he wrote to Zaman Arabic about his full day in chiefs of...
Gulf Cooperation Council states support international measures aimed at deterring the Syrian regime and preventing it from "committing inhuman practices," said GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani on Saturday, according to KUNA, news agency. Al-Zayani, in a...
An Iranian strategic expert has warned that one of the daughters of U.S. President Barack Obama will be kidnapped and raped if America carries out a military strike on Syria, reported the Daily Mail on Friday. Alireza Forghani, the former governor of the Kish Province in...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday hailed as “invaluable” the united European Union position urging “a strong response” to a deadly chemical weapons attack blamed on Syria’s regime. “The signal given by a united European position in the face of this abominable conflict is of...
Qatar Authorities granted 1700 entry visa for Syrian families who fled from the war, according to Syrian opposition embassy in Doha. The obtained visas were for the applicants of March and April, where the rest will issued, respectively. Mr. Nizar al-Haraki, the national...
Three Syrian female singers had expressed their opposition to the military strike on Assad regime, the pro-Assad Channel 'Russia Today' reported. Nadia al-Manfookh, an unkown Syrian singer, apart from participating in first season of Arab Idol, stopped...
Firdous Cinema was a popular destination for Damascus’s suburbs residence, but the war that has been for more than two years, caused suffering for the cinema’s management either by buying new films or by the dramatic decrease in number of attendees and visitors, AFP reported. The...
