Iraq is going to break up.  It is already happening, but no one wants to acknowledge it because no one wants to be perceived as being responsible for the disintegration of a major Middle Eastern country .   There is not much about the...

  Rebels are still controlling the northern and eastern parts of the Christian town of Sadad, 60 km east Homs, as the fighting is still continuing,   Zaman Alwasl local reporter said.  Early today, Assad Army forces are said to have retook a Christian town of...

  A 35-year-old man was killed in the southeastern Turkish town of Ceylanpinar early on Monday when a stray mortar shell fired across the border from Syria struck a house near the frontier, security sources said. The shell was fired during clashes between Kurdish and...

China supports the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to play an role in solving the issue of Syria's chemical weapons, a spokeswoman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.   "The Syrian government has...