U.S. military action against Syria would carry the risk of inadvertently hitting a chemical weapons site, President Barack Obama told to PBS television in an interview on Monday. “Have we mapped all of the chemical weapons facilities inside of Syria to make sure that we don’t drop a bomb on...

What makes Ahmadinejad smile? What’s behind Ahmadinejad’s smile? How much does Ahmadinejad’s famed white jacket cost? Is Ahmadinejad preparing for the apocalypse? Is Ahmadinejad the George W. Bush of Iranian politics? During the past eight years of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s...

 A FSA official told "Zaman Alwasl" that the Chiefs of Staff in the Supreme Military Council had received a new batch of weapons including anti-tank missiles, Shoulder-fire missiles, besides Russian weapons, without disclosing further information. The source expected that the new...

North Korea is allegedly playing a vital role in the reported use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against the rebels in the ongoing civil war. The North Korean government is believed to have supplied Syria the latest technologies to convert chemical agents into warheads....

  Hamas on Monday urged the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from Syria, saying its involvement in that war is contributing to the "sectarian polarisation" of the region. Hezbollah should focus its efforts on fighting its arch-enemy Israel, said...

  To be lashed by a whip on back, means that you are implementing  Sharia  as Salafist group has alleged in al-Tabqa city, affiliated with Raqqa Province, the same city of the provoking YouTube videos recently, where the province is under control of Islamic groups...

The elected Local Council in the liberated neighborhoods of Aleppo announced the reopening of Civil services Department next Saturday where citizens can register their civil matters of deaths, marriage,divorce in centers of  Al-Ansar, ALShaar and Hanano.  The new...

Well-informed source assured the Saudi Arabia has begun supplying the Syrian rebels with anti-craft missiles "visual-range", two months ago, according to Reuters.   The shoulder-fired missiles were obtained from suppliers in France and Belgium. Source added...

Millions hope so, it seems; they have signed a national petition demanding the president resign and plan to take to the streets on June 30, when Mohamed Mursi marks a year in office. Their slogan is a call for revolt: "Tamarud - Rebel!" But for all the simmering discontent with...

As well as the nuclear dispute, relations with the West and Iran's internal divisions, Rohani also has to cope with an economy damaged by international sanctions and mismanagement and a civil war in  Syria  where it backs President Bashar al-Assad. Better relations with other...

 A veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, will not permit no-fly zones to be imposed over  Syria , Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday. "I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario," Lukashevich told a news briefing, adding...

Syria's pound -lira- has continued to slide against the dollar, losing as much as 175% of its value in the black market since the outbreak of Syrian revolution against the Assad regime March 2011. The pound is trading at a rate of about 115 to the US dollar according to central...

President Obama’s tack on Syria looks a lot like President George W. Bush’s handling of Iraq and “sounds an awful lot like how Vietnam started,” former Rep. Ron Paul argues in his weekly column. Mr. Paul, Texas Republican, argues that the recent announcement from the Obama...

A member of Oxfam lays flowers in front of the City Hall in Belfast June 17, 2013. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, U.S. President Barack Obama will try to find common ground with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern...

 Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad's air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday according to AFP. The article, citing a classified report received by the German foreign intelligence service...

Sadness is written on the face of 45-year-old Jamila, living in the open-air municipal courtyard of Arsal in Lebanon and still traumatised by her escape from Syria's former rebel stronghold Qusayr. Along with her sick husband and three children, she fled the town in Syria's central province...

Iran's newly elected president pledged Monday to follow a "path of moderation" and promised greater openness over the country's nuclear program, emphasizing messages from Western leaders since his victory that have brought cautious hope of new openings with Tehran. Hasan Rowhani used his...

Capitol Hill lawmakers pressed President Obama on Sunday to go beyond supplying Syrian rebels with small arms and to consider imposing a no-fly zone over the war-torn country. South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said supplying rebels with automatic weapons and ammunition is not...

As the French arrange high-level meetings with the rebel leadership, the U.S. continues to maintain its distance. Gen. Idris talks with The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin. Despite the White House’s public announcement Wednesday that it would provide “military assistance” to the Syrian...

U.S. President Barack Obama faces what could be a frosty G8 meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday after the Russian leader clashed with the West over plans to arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, Obama will try to...