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Washington: While maintaining its earlier position on Syria, US has said the only outcome that is right for the people of west Asian country is the transition from the Assad era to a post-Assad era and strongly believed that Bashar al-Assad has no place in the...
Washington: Britain has detected a subtle shift in Russia’s attitude to the Syrian conflict which it hopes may make it easier to organise a peace conference aimed at overseeing a political transition. Though Russia shows no signs of withdrawing its backing for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s...
Beirut: Syrian troops have taken full control of a town near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan, a new advance in the regime’s campaign to drive rebels from the strategic south, an activist group said Monday. Rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad...
Internet connections between Syria and the outside world were cut off on Tuesday, according to data from Google Inc and other global Internet companies. Google’s Transparency Report pages showed traffic to Google services pages from the country, embroiled in a civil war that has lasted more...
Beirut: A look at the reasons for and possible implications of the escalation of Israel’s involvement in Syria’s civil war. Why Now? Israel has said repeatedly it does not want to get dragged into Syria’s civil war but has also warned that it will not allow...
Beirut: Syria’s main opposition group says President Bashar Assad’s regime was behind an attack on a Sunni village near the Mediterranean coast that killed at least 50 people, according to activists. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen swept...
Jerusalem: A former Israeli defense minister alleged on Monday that Syria’s chemical weapons are ‘trickling’ to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. It was the first such claim by a senior politician in Israel, but he did not supply evidence to support his assertion. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a...
Washington: President Barack Obama took US concerns about Syrian chemical weapons to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, reaching out to one of the Syrian government’s staunchest allies. The United States is trying to determine the facts around alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons. Last week...
Washington: The Obama Administration has called for ‘methodical and vigorous’ investigation into the assessment of its intelligence community that the Assad regime has used ‘chemical weapons’ on a small scale in Syria. Even as the top American lawmakers insisted the Assad regime has crossed the ‘red-line’ and thus the US...
Beirut: Syrian rebels on Friday captured a strategic town near the border with Jordan after a day of fierce clashes that killed at least 38 people, activists said, as opposition fighters expand their presence in the south, considered a gateway to Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...
