Syrian Opposition

Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Fayssal Mekdad said on Wednesday that the meeting held by the Syrian Opposition in Doha amounts to "a declaration of war". He noted that the...

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood has welcomed the agreement struck on Sunday in Doha between the country's opposition forces. The meeting in the Qatari capital chose Sheikh Mouaz Elkhatib to be...

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Mohammed Riad Al-Shaqfa, has accused Western powers of trying to exclude his party from the official Syrian opposition. However, the...

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, who is also his president's special envoy to the Middle East, has said that Bashar Al-Assad's regime has lost control of Syria. According to...

A senior Jordanian government official has denied that Jordan has closed its borders to Syrian refugees over the past few days, and stressed that the border remained open to...

Forces within the Syrian opposition have escalated their stance against the Arab and international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, over his insistence that Iran should participate in the Geneva...

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood has revealed that its members have now finished their deliberations about launching a political party to represent the Brotherhood, deciding to do so under the name...

The Syrian Information Minister, Omran Al-Zoubi, announced on Monday that President Bashar Al-Assad's regime will not go to the Geneva II Conference "to hand over power" as demanded by...

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has confirmed that it has received an offer from the government in Iran over regime change. Omar Al-Mushawah confirmed statements attributed...

On Friday the Syrian National Council (SNC) renewed its rejection of an invitation to attend the Geneva II Conference set to take place in Switzerland on January 22 to...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has launched an initiative to "heal the rift" within the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. It intends to engage all parties...

A senior member of Syria's opposition has been "harassed" and detained at Cairo International Airport. This is the second time that the National Coalition's Haitham Al-Maleh has been treated...

Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has issued a warning about the worsening situation in Syria. William Hague called for more help to reach a political solution and...

The German Foreign Minister has rejected the idea of providing the Syrian opposition with weapons for their struggle against the Assad regime. Guido Westerwelle told Der Tagesspiegel newspaper that...

The Russian permanent representative at the UN, Vitaly Churkin, has said that giving al-Assad's seat in the Arab League to the Syrian opposition "would not be helpful" to a...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that he will meet with members of the Syrian opposition in London later this week. Kerry is stopping-off in London...

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...

Syrian opposition groups refused a Russian invitation to meet officials from the Syrian regime in Moscow, Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Ukashević has said. According to Ukashević, the meeting...

The results of a number of security solutions to national and international issues will not last long despite their current effectiveness. While some regimes have managed to suppress their...

Since the very beginning of the Arab uprisings earlier this year, the leaders of dictatorial governments at the centre of the storms across the region have raised the spectre...

Estimates of the number of fighters in the Islamist Al-Nusra Front are numerous and no one can be sure of the correct figure. Perhaps ten to twenty thousand fighters...

On May 7th, 2013, the United States and Russia agreed to hold an international conference to end the war and "prevent the dismantlement of Syria". The agreement was announced...