Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013: [Time in GMT]  5-6 p.m. White House: Obama to authorize military attack on Syria even without Congressional approval   4-5 p.m. Canada won't join in military strike on Syria: PM Five permanent UNSC members to meet on Syria again at...

Military source in the Joint chiefs of free army staff revealed that Washington had impeded the entry of Atropine material and other anti-chemical gases to Syria, before the use of chemical weapons last week in al-Ghouta near Damascus by Assad forces. The source disclosed that...

Opposition National Coalition stated on its official website  that Syrian regime is planning to hit Christian areas with chemical weapon in near future and before the anticipated military strike that US and West countries are planning to. This statement has been obtained...

Former Damascus U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said The American military strike will not topple Bashar al-Assad but will be a disciplinary strike what make him more stubborn, Opposition  dissident  told Zaman Alwasl.  The decision of a military strike was...

  Sadness and grieve prevail Wadi Al-Nasara area, north west Syria with mosaic textile of charming Christian village. In general people there support Syrian regime and regular army in its war against radical Jihadists, as they see it.   Photos of "martyrs " who were...

Medical sources reported that 13 civilians were killed on Wednesday, most of them from "Gharibi" family following the missile bombing of the Ariha city.  The sources pointed out that the shelling of the city accelerated after sudden withdrawal of the regime forces after the...

"The Syrian regime must not hope to be able to continue this warfare that violates international law, an international reaction is inevitable” the Merkel and Cameron agreed. Steve Zaybert, the German government spokesman said on Wednesday that the leaders of Germany and Britain...

President Obama warned Wednesday that a potential U.S. military strike on Syria’s ruling regime in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on its own people would send “a pretty strong signal that they better not do it again.” In  an interview with PBS’s “NewsHour”  at the White...

The  NATO  Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, says that information points to President Assad’s forces being responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria, according to Euronews. He was speaking after a meeting of  NATO  ambassadors in Brussels to discuss...

Barack Obama is unlikely to have much trouble mustering a  Nato coalition of the willing if Washington opts for military intervention in  Syria in response to the  alleged chemical weapons atrocities by the Assad regime . There is, however, no prospect of a UN mandate for...

The moral outrage is all over this debate. As the West prepares to launch airstrikes against the Syrian regime in retaliation for its alleged use of chemical weapons, lines of global leaders and their cheering commentators are using a superior sense of morality to justify it. Last year, Obama...

Israeli youth in the Bnei Akiva program pray for an end to the killing of innocent Syrian civilians. A group of youth involved in the religious-Zionist Bnei Akiva program have started organized prayers on behalf of Syrian civilians who are at risk due to the ongoing civil  war in...

 Turkey may open its strategic İncirlik air base for possible military operations into neighboring Syria, if the Western defense alliance NATO decides for an intervention in the ongoing civil war, a ranking Turkish official told the Hürriyet Daily News on Aug. 26.  ...

  Kurdish National Council and Syrian opposition National Coalition concluded an initial agreement that included recognition of the identity of the Kurdish people to consider their issue as an essential part of the overall national issue in unified Syria. The agreement also...

Until a few days ago, it looked like a sure bet that the U.S. Federal Reserve would announce the beginning of the end of its massive bond buying program in September. Now, investors are less certain. The prospect of Western military action against  Syria  has sent stock...

Syria's UN envoy said Wednesday that dozens of Syrian soldiers inhaled poison gas in new incidents in his country and called on the United Nations to investigate. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told reporters he had asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to extend the mandate of a UN chemical...

Ahmed Jabra who’s known as “Abo Saffok”, the Head of the National Coalition met a group of journalists and activists mainly from inside Syria as the meeting was held in Istanbul. The head of the coalition insisted that such meetings would take place in future. He listened to the...

  Kurdish rebels based in north Iraq Monday claimed to have killed seven Iranian soldiers in clashes last week near the Islamic republic's border with Iraqi Kurdistan.   "Iranian forces...attacked and swept the area near Sardasht," the PJAK said in a...

The U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said Wednesday it was clear a chemical substance had been used in an August 21 attack in the war-torn country, killing hundreds of people. Speaking to reporters in Geneva about the suspected chemical attack, Brahimi said “it does...

Britain says it will put forward a resolution Wednesday to the U.N. Security Council condemning the Syrian government for the alleged chemical attack that has killed hundreds of civilians. A statement from Prime Minister David Cameron's office said Britain would seek a measure "authorizing...