Syrian crisis

The Director of Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem, Sheikh Azzam Al Khatib, has demanded that the Islamic solidarity summit, which begins today in Makkah, should have a special look at...

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç revealed that Turkish military warplanes shot down a Syrian military helicopter that crossed into Turkish airspace. Arınç explained that the Syrian helicopter had...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed his belief that there is no military solution to the current Syrian crisis. A diplomatic solution is the most appropriate for...

Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday accused the Syrian regime of turning Syria to a "terrorist state" on account of the widespread massacres being perpetrated by state forces...

The British Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, arrived in Cairo from Bahrain on Wednesday in a 2-day visit to Egypt as a part of...

For the first time since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a large number of ships from the Russian fleet are gathering along the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean....

Turkish President Abdullah Gül said that forcing the Syrian regime to hand over its chemical weapons is a significant and good step, but warned that resolution of Syrian crisis...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet his American counterpart US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Thursday to discuss the details of the Russian proposal to...

The Chinese and Russian veto of a draft resolution proposed by Britain at the UN Security Council which would give the Syrian regime one and a half months to...

The past few weeks have witnessed a convergence of several important issues facing post-uprising Egypt: new Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's opportunism in his attempt to reform the judiciary (as...

The Syrian crisis marks not only one of the bloodiest modern revolutions, but also one of the most blatant humanitarian failures for the international community.  The Syrian Observatory for...

The desperate opposition groups in Egypt are dragging the country into a new crisis even before it has emerged from the previous one, which appears to be endless. It's...