One of the leaders of the Syrian opposition said on Aug. 13, 2013, that 7,000  defected military officers  from the Syrian regime army who took refuge in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, will form the nucleus of the national army that the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) seeks...

Turkish Prime Minister  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan  has accused Egypt’s interim rulers of committing state terrorism and compared army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as scores more were killed in a crackdown and hundreds were besieged in Cairo’s al-Fath...

Syria 's regime  is trying to tap frozen funds in foreign bank accounts to step up purchases of food  stocks  including wheat, as civil war and a deepening humanitarian crisis push President Bashar al-Assad to seek new ways to feed his people, Reuters reported ....

Turkey has become involved in order to bring about an understanding between the Al Nusra Front and Kurdish groups so that ongoing conflicts in Ras Al-Ayn in Syria will cease.  Turkey has started negotiations regarding the clashes in the  Kurd ish region of northern ...