Barack Obama is unlikely to have much trouble mustering a  Nato coalition of the willing if Washington opts for military intervention in  Syria in response to the  alleged chemical weapons atrocities by the Assad regime . There is, however, no prospect of a UN mandate for...

    Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem vowed on Tuesday that his country will defend itself in case of any Western military strikes against it.   “We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The...

 K hanaser, the vital town in northern Aleppo countryside and the biggest gathering for pro-Assad militias  had been liberated, activists reported.  The head of the National Defense forces ( NDF) in Aleppo city was killed on Sunday morning by clashes between the NDF...

 Britain said on Sunday that evidence of a chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus could have already been destroyed ahead of a visit to the site by U.N. inspectors. Earlier in the day  Syria  agreed to let experts from the United Nations on Monday visit the...