Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) in Aleppo suffered gunshots by the Assad forces in front of Aleppo Central Prison, sources revealed to Zaman Alwasl. SARC-Aleppo has begun two days ago sending humanitarian aids to Aleppo Central Prison in a convoy, after...

  " Al-Watan" Pro-Assad newspapers said that the preliminary estimates for the recent salary increase will cost the Syrian Treasury 86 billion Syrian pounds, an amount approximately 6% of the total funds for the budget of 2013 ....

       The Damascus neighborhood known as Mezze 86 is a dense, dilapidated warren of narrow hillside streets adorned with posters bearing the face of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. The presidential palace is nearby, and the area is...

I'm in Oslo to give a seminar and a public lecture at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, and I'm looking forward to hearing how world politics looks from a Nordic perspective. I haven't been to Norway since 2009, when my visit coincided with the Norwegian Nobel Committee's surprising...