Russia on Thursday blocked a UN Security Council demand that Syria allow immediate access to thousands of civilians trapped by a government offensive on the city of Homs, diplomats said. Diplomats said Russia’s opposition to the statement proposed by council members Australia and...

Senior Gulf Cooperation Council officials met in Riyadh on Thursday to coordinate sanctions in the six member states against Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement over its support for the Syria regime. The meeting was “to develop mechanisms to monitor movements, financial...

 Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Thursday that his government had fended off everything his enemies had thrown at him and that the only remaining threat to his rule was a far-off – and improbable – foreign intervention. In comments to the state-run...

  The ongoing Coalition meeting in Istanbul to name new leader had witnessed today a brawl between FSA representatives and a member of the coalition at the hotel. Zaman Alwasl reporter said.   Prominent dissident Michael Kilo and Sheikh Salem al-Muslet...