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...

Gunmen shot dead 11 people, mostly Christians, near a town in central Syria on Saturday, state media and activists said, an attack described by a local resident as aimed at members of the religious minority. The resident, citing eyewitnesses, told The Associated Press that the gunmen...

Growing unrest in Egypt has forced Syrian opposition leaders to flee the country and move their headquarters to Turkey. The army-backed interim administration in Egypt has clamped down on the movement of senior figures of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), making it difficult for...