Germany exported 111 tonnes of chemicals to Syria between 2002 and 2006 that could be used in the production of sarin gas, according to a government document published on Wednesday . But the government rejected a suggestion...
US Senator John McCain has penned a blistering column for Russian media, telling the Russian people that their President Vladimir Putin is a dissent-quashing tyrant who "doesn't believe in you." The senior US politician, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, accused Putin and his...
Donor countries, among them France, Qatar and Russia, are failing to adequately provide urgently-needed funding for the humanitarian crisis in Syria, an international aid agency said. Oxfam, in a report released on Thursday, said its research revealed that many donor countries are not...
The world's chemical weapons watchdog said it is to meet on Friday to discuss a Russian-US plan for the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will meet at 1400 GMT to consider the "elimination of Syrian chemical...
Syrian jihadi groups are now kidnapping and killing one another. Is this the beginning of an all out war, or an opportunity for the moderates? If the United States wants to move against jihadists in Syria, there has never been a better time. Tensions between moderate...
Hezbollah retaliation could include firing rockets at Israel or executing terrorist attacks on Western and Israeli interests via the group's formidable global networks. The public debate over strikes on Syria has given Hezbollah and Iran ample time to ratchet up...
Syrian businessmen said 15 giant plants have been dismantled and brought across the border to Turkey, in addition to many other smaller factories. Some of these factories were re-assembled in Turkey and are already operational, while others were sold as second-hand machinery. Some...
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani praised on Tuesday President Barack Obama’s approach as constructive and vowed that his country would never develop nuclear weapons. President Obama had sent a letter to President Rowhani congratulating him on winning the presidency. “From my point of...
The Syrian chemical weapons stockpile includes more than 1000 tons of agents and precursor chemicals, making it one of the largest in the world, a declassified French intelligence report says. The report notes that the Syrian chemical weapons program poses a major global threat in terms of...
An Al-Qaeda front group fighting in Syria on Wednesday overran the northern town of Azaz near the border with Turkey after fierce clashes with rebels, activists told AFP. "The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham'' (ISIS) has seized complete control of Azaz. They are in control of the town's...
"Wamdha" is a project for love and peace where a group of Syrian youth are trying to challenge war through their music,"Wamdha" or the the Blink is to stop the tiring "music" of war and the bullets sounds, by their touching and tender songs in the middle of...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that recent revelations of the US National Security Agency’s surveillance programs have have led to a meaningful decline in trust of Facebook and other big internet companies. At an event hosted by The Atlantic in Washington, DC,...
The Syrian regime has handed Russia new materials implicating rebels in a chemical attack outside Damascus on August 21, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday. “The corresponding materials were handed to the Russian side. We were told that they were evidence that...
Activists reported many abuses by armed militants who claimed belonging to the rebels' battalions. Atareb police station- affiliated to Shariah Authority- in north Aleppo arrested four men over charges of Arms robbery and attempt to sow discord between the rebels and the 'Islamic...
The decision to form the Opposition Interim government – Finally- born with 29 provisions to regulate and conduct its work and relation with the National Coalition, according Zaman Alwasl reporter. Mr. Ahmed To'ma, the new elected PM will be with limited...
The UN inspectors investigating the chemical weapons attack on two suburbs in Damascus last month weren’t supposed to point the finger at the party responsible for the killings. But even so, the Sellstrom report revealed key details of the attack that strongly suggest the government is to...
The chief UN chemical weapons inspector says his team will return to Syria "within weeks" to complete the investigation it had started before the Aug 21 gas attack of other alleged chemical weapons attacks in the country. Ake Sellstrom told The Associated Press Wednesday the...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could cling to power for years despite having lost overall control of his country, according to Israel's top commander on the frontier with Syria . Major-General Yair Golan's remarks, published on Wednesday in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper,...
Although Israel and Syria are officially at war, Israeli hospitals have been treating a trickle of Syrians wounded in the conflict. Since the uprising started, Israel has been neutral, at least publicly. But that could change. A Syrian boy lies hovering...
Syrian Democratic Turkmen Movement expressed its reservation about the agreement signed between the Syrian Coalition and the Kurdish National Council as well as its rejection to threatening the sovereignty of the Syrian people and land. In a statement, the movement said: “We call upon...
