Syria's president Bashar al-Assad issued on Monday a legislative decree licensing private companies for protection and guarding services, State-run news agency (SANA) said. The decree stipulates that the Interior Ministry will be in charge of licensing these companies, giving them...

  New elected National Coalition President will attend Geneva 2 with preconditions, saying my Interview with the New York Time was out of context.  Ahmed Jarba has denied what 'New York Times' reported about participation in the peace conference in Geneva ''with...

   Saudi Al Watan newspaper quoted its sources in the Syrian opposition as saying that “the authorities of Damascus have been granting Lebanese Hezbollah members and Iraqi militia Shiites the Syrian nationality , and has been registering them as residents of the city of Sweida,...

Secretary of State John Kerry has recommended that Robert S. Ford serve as the next American ambassador to Egypt, American officials said Sunday, a critical role at a time of rising turmoil and anti-Americanism in the traditional Arab ally. Mr. Ford, a longtime Middle East hand and fluent...