. Aleppo rebels released recently the son of Ali Mamlouk, head of the Syrian national security in a deal to replace the prisoners. The war-college student was arrested months ago when the college became under control of rebels....
As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said, here in the northern city of Aleppo. Then, virtually overnight,...
U.S. military action against Syria would carry the risk of inadvertently hitting a chemical weapons site, President Barack Obama told to PBS television in an interview on Monday. “Have we mapped all of the chemical weapons facilities inside of Syria to make sure that we don’t drop a bomb...
Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region. For the...
