Syrian Regime

Russia's Deputy Prime Minister has confirmed that it is still supplying the Syrian regime with arms and ammunition, including air defence weapons. Dmitry Rogozin tried to justify this by saying...

The Turkish government has banned all Syrian aircraft from its airspace in response to its own aircraft being banned from Syrian airspace. A foreign ministry official said that the...

The Iranian nuclear issue and the possible collapse of the Syrian regime are the main obstacles for Israel's response to the suicide attack against Israelis in Bulgaria, an Israeli...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has rejected any suggestion or initiatives which might see the current regime stay in power until 2014. The rejection came in a statement in...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that if the Syrian army uses chemical weapons against rebels it will be "political suicide". However, he pointed out that the movement...

The Israeli government has not commented on a Sunday Times report in Britain which alleges that units of Israeli special forces are searching for chemical weapons in Syria. Deputy...

The Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that it is prepared to talk with anyone ready for dialogue, including the armed opposition. The ministry did not mention whether fighters would...

The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Zuhair Salem, asserted that a number of domestic and international reports have reliably confirmed that the Syrian regime's forces used chemical...

The conflict in Syria started two and a half years ago. It has claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced more than 2.3 million people. The United Nations has...

Iran rejected on Monday a US proposal suggesting that it play a "minor" role in the upcoming Geneva II conference, which aims to solve the Syrian civil conflict, saying...

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 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...

British and French officials have told the UN Secretary-General they have reliable evidence the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in several cities in Syria. The Washington Post reported that...

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that the alliance is ready to confront the security challenges in Syria but noted that a decision has not been reached...

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...

The Palestinian community in Britain has announced the start of an unprecedented initiative to aid Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus. About 20,000...

Russia has vetoed a UK-drafted statement at the UN Security Council denouncing attacks by the Syrian regime forces on Aleppo in the north of Syria, UN diplomats told Reuters...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Anadolu news agency on Thursday that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, also known as Daash, is a secret partner of...

It is with a heavy heart that I am writing about the saddening situation in Syria, the country often described as the beating heart of Arabdom. The scenes of the...

The gruesome images and horrifying accounts that keep coming from Syria defy linguistic description. They go beyond the pale of human decency. A few weeks ago, Hamza al Khatib,...

In March 2011, only a week before the Syrian revolution sparked off, Michael Broning of Foreign Affairs wrote an article about the "Sturdy House that Assad Built", arguing the...

News about Israel's latest killing spree against the people of the Gaza Strip has only occupied a small amount of airtime in the news bulletins of Arab TV stations....

Before clashes broke out in Syria, the head of the Hamas Movement's Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, contacted the Syrian leadership and offered clear and frank advice regarding the need...

Many politicians and journalists are fearful of the future which can be facing the religious minorities in Syria following the revolution. Very often, these fears are expressed in the...

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...

None of the Palestinian families in the Yarmouk refugee camp was expecting 21 to be killed and dozens of wounded as they broke their fast earlier in this month...

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...

It is difficult for the observer to forecast the course of events in our region. The ongoing changes in the Arab region and the Middle East are many. The...

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...

Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons provides a good excuse for an American-Western military intervention in Syria. If the West was driven by the immorality of killing on a...

It is clear that the Arab region is turbulent. It is also clear that the political situation is in a state of confusing fluidity; alliances have collapsed while others...