Each Saturday morning in July and August, Susan E. Rice ,  President Obama ’s new national security adviser, gathered half a dozen aides in her corner office in the White House to plot America’s future in the Middle East. The policy review, a...

Syria's armed opposition in a statement posted on YouTube yesterday said Geneva II peace conference in no more than a conspiracy on the Syrian people. 19 factions, including the Islam Army and Ahrar al-Sham assured their refusal for any solution will keep Bashar al-Assad or...

  Its almost 15 months since the news agencies surfaced the first such incident since the Syrian uprising on March 15, 2011, ''Syrian air force pilot  flew into neighboring Jordan and defected with his Russian-made fighter jet.'' Zaman Alwasl was pleased to...

    Syria handed over a detailed plan to destroy its chemical stockpile on time, international watchdog OPCW said Sunday. "On 24 October 2013, the Syrian Arab Republic submitted to the OPCW its formal initial declaration covering its chemical weapons programme," the watchdog...