The border crossing between  Syria  and  Lebanon  was frantic on Tuesday, as it had been for many months. But, unusually, amid the hordes of people at passport control on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa crossing were queues of well-heeled Syrians – types not often on the...

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour noted on Tuesday that a war against Syria will have negative repercussions on the entire region, reported the National News Agency. He said: “Lebanon will not remain silent if Israel exploited a strike against Syria to attack Hezbollah in the...

   A new book by the Veteran Arab thinker and Philosopher Dr. Azmi Bishara "Syria: Via Dolorosa toward freedom-an attempt at contemporary history" ( 687 pages), published by the  Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies . The book is an...

 Intervention will "burn ... whole Middle East", Assad's minister says amid new tensions over alleged chemical-weapons attack. The regime government has warned the US not to launch any military action against the country over an alleged chemical-weapons attack earlier in...