Syrian Conflict

Turkey is greatly disappointed by the meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and American President Barack Obama in Washington last week. Talk of Syria took up most...

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said that any solution to problems in the Middle East, especially the Syrian conflict or Iran's nuclear programme should be "political, not military." In...

Russia and the United States agreed on Tuesday to hold an international conference in an effort to end the civil war in Syria. The conference will possibly be at...

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has expressed his concern that the Jordanian regime is threatened by the ongoing Syria conflict, pointing out that King Abdullah is moderate and America's ally...

UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, has called for Israelis and Palestinians to seize the current chance at peace represented by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry. "This may...

According to a poll conducted by Gallup research institute, the majority of Americans are against their country's military involvement in Syria. The poll's results, which were published last Friday,...

Israeli security services are suggesting that Barack Obama could initiate a strike against Syria to punish the regime for its use of chemical weapons against civilians in Ghoutah last...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that he has discussed the possibility of enforcing local ceasefires in Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The question...

Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called for worldwide participation in carrying out reform of the United Nations stressing that the UNSC should represent all the countries of...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has announced that Paris and London are to ask the EU to re-schedule to an earlier date its foreign ministers' meeting planned for the...

Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, has promised to bring those responsible for "unbearable crimes" in Syria to justice. He accused the Syrian regime...

Despite his criticism of the Syrian regime, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced the alleged Israeli attacks on Syrian targets that took place during the weekend, AFP reports....

Two days ago, the Turkish army began a ten day drill at a base near its borders with Syria in light of growing fears over the spreading violence. According...

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday morning that Russia sent 12 warships on naval tours near its naval base in Syria. American and European officials described the move...

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that Russia will not cancel its plans to provide Syria with an air defence system despite Western opposition. Sergei Ryabkov insisted that...

A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that Moscow is opposed to the deployment of weapons to countries neighbouring Syria. Alexander Lukashevich made his comments following the...

An American source in the Pentagon has said US intelligence services believe that there are three Russian warships in the Mediterranean on their way to hand over weapons to...

The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, has warned France and Britain of the consequences of arming the Syrian opposition, and stressed that there were terrorists in Syria that target...

As tripartite US, UN and Russian discussions in Geneva about Syria ended Tuesday, deputy Russian Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said that no time was set for the Geneva meeting....

Two Syrian diplomats in Berlin have announced their defection from Bashar Al Assad's regime due to its "horrific crimes" which have taken the country to unprecedented levels of violence...

France has given a conditional welcome for Iran's intention to attend the Geneva 2 conference which will seek to negotiate an end to the bloodshed in Syria. Foreign Minister...

A Syrian government delegation has arrived in Moscow to meet with Russian Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs Gennady Gatilov and Mikhail Bogdanov. On the agenda will be the preparations...

Like many US presidents passed, President Obama is determined to violently attack others in the name of morality and the common good. He and other American exceptionalists tell us...

When US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart and host Sergei Lavrov, make an announcement on having reached an agreement to hold an international conference on...

After being away – I won't say staying away – from Egypt for over 18 years, I went to Cairo, the capital that hosted me, along with millions of...

Writing about Syria is emotionally draining and intellectually overwhelming. Evident by the level of destruction and killing, the mutual hatred between President Bashar Al Assad's regime and the armed...

On 16 April, it emerged that the US was sending 200 troops to Jordan, to establish a small headquarters near the border with Syria. While these troops will initially...

Only a few months after the fighting in Syria began in earnest I wrote about the Afghan model there. Unfortunately, this has been confirmed over time. After more than...

Attempts to analyse the Arab Spring revolutions have included suggestions of foreign conspiracies to divide and rule what is left of the Middle East. Others suggest that the revolutions...

The Syrian conflict has dragged on for two years and claimed more than 80,000 lives. So far, the west has avoided direct intervention, though the US, Britain and France...

Tragedy and resistance have been linked to Palestinians' history since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and it is no surprise that there is an organic relationship between the current...

Israel's recent attacks on more than forty locations around Damascus raise many questions about their timing, motives and goals. More puzzling, perhaps, has been the reaction of the Assad...