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...

    An Israeli military official says Israeli forces have hit a target inside Syria that was the source of mortar fire into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The official said Sunday at least three shells landed near the Syrian frontier the previous evening, causing no...

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...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday condemned Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, saying his recent  speech  threatened to further involve Lebanon in the Syria war. “I listened to speech by Hezbollah secretary general. It was rather balanced at first, and...