Over 400 million tweets are posted every day. But accessing 100% of these tweets (say for disaster response purposes) requires access to Twitter’s “Firehose”. The latter, however, can be prohibitively expensive and also requires serious infrastructure to manage. This explains...

A Russian defence ministry source has told Reuters he knew of no qualified Syrians trained by Moscow to use the S- 300 s, putting the completion of the anti-aircraft system in Syria at "six to 12 months from now ".   He added that the Israelis "likely have...

In a sudden demand, the Supreme Council for the Leadership of the Syrian Revolution asked the half of the coalition seats in reply to the fragile status of coalition and the weakness they had showed in representing the revolution inside Syria and in the international side. Another reason is...

The Syrian National Coalition issued today an “urgent appeal for relief efforts” for over 1,000 injured civilians in Qusair, the western city that has been the site of fierce fighting between government troops plus Hezbollah, and opposition forces. Reuters has been speaking to Malek...