UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who arrived in Damascus Monday, believes President Bashar al-Assad could contribute to the transition to a "new" Syria, but not as the country's leader. Brahimi, who was in Syria on the latest leg of a...
Syria's deputy prime minister, Qadri Jamil, was dismissed from his post, state media said on Tuesday, citing government complaints about his performance and lack of coordination with other officials, Reuters reported. Jamil had been in Geneva recently and met U.S....
A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war Fifteen days into his job as Lebanon ’s top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something...
Leader of Lebanese Hezbollah movement accuses Saudi Arabia of blocking political solution to the conflict in Syria. The head of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah and key Damascus ally Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of blocking a political solution to the conflict in Syria....
