More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war that began in March 2011, an NGO said on Wednesday. The tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as renewed regime air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo killed at...
Top officials of the main two opposition groups in Syria, western-backed National Coalition and Russian-backed National Coordination Body, had met in Cairo since two weeks to bolster dialogue between and boost their cohesion ahead of Geneva 2, well-informed source told Zaman...
A member of a prominent opposition group demanded Monday that the National Coalition leadership resign en masse for its failure to defend Syrians inside the country. The proposal was made by Marwan Hajjo Rifai, a founding member of the Syrian...
Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks said Tuesday it had no knowledge of and did not approve a delegation to Syria which met President Bashar al-Assad and included members of Australia’s WikiLeaks Party. The delegation, aimed at showing solidarity with the Syrian people and...
