On Friday,  The New York Post   reported  that 11-year-old Hafez al-Assad, son of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, posted a Facebook message taunting President Obama and the United States, daring Obama to launch a military assault.  The New York Times apparently believes the...

      This is a very interesting  wide-ranging interview with Ahmed Jarba , the president of the Syrian opposition’s National Coalition, with the Lebanese television channel LBC. Perhaps unlike previous public appearances, he looks very confident,...

  Russia is postponing supplies of fighter jets and S-300 missile defense systems to Syria because official Damascus failed to pay for them, Kommersant newspaper said Saturday. The 12  MiG-29M/M2  jets that Russia agreed to sell to Syria will not be supplied before 2016-2017,...

US Secretary of State John Kerry set out in considerable detail on Friday the evidence for why the United States believes Syrian government forces were responsible for this month’s horrific chemical-weapon attacks on rebel-held portions of the Damascus suburbs.  But he gave less detail...