Al-Qaeda affiliate seeks to solve its disputes in Atareb peacefully after threats to attack the northern town near Aleppo, local sources told Zaman Aalwasl.  The State of Iraq and al-Sham recently demanded the rebels based in the town to surrender and to...

   UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who arrived in Damascus Monday, believes President Bashar al-Assad could contribute to the transition to a "new" Syria, but not as the country's leader. Brahimi, who was in Syria on the latest leg of a...

A group of Syrian activists known for its hacking was briefly able to redirect a link on the  @barackobama  Twitter feed to one of its own videos, according to the people who maintain the Twitter feed. The tweet from the account, which is run by Organizing for Action, initially...

  Iraq is going to break up.  It is already happening, but no one wants to acknowledge it because no one wants to be perceived as being responsible for the disintegration of a major Middle Eastern country .   There is not much about the...