Act now or let Assad and his mob get away scot-free
Following my trip to Syria this week, I am even more convinced that parliament’s decision in September 2013 not to strike and ...
The teeth and bones that hold the key to this century’s worst chemical weapons attack
Some 1,500 victims of a deadly nerve agent are believed to be buried in one mass grave in Syria – now their families want ...
Syria authorities say foiled IS attack on Shiite shrine
Syria's state news agency SANA said authorities had arrested "Islamic State" (IS) members accused of targeting the Sayeda ...
Syrian intelligence agency says it thwarted a planned Islamic State attack on a Shiite shrine
Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, state media reported ...
Syrians celebrate a month since Assad’s overthrow with revolutionary songs in Damascus
A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...
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Turkey doesn't seek conflict with Israel in Syria. Here's why
Ankara has no appetite for such adventures, amid hopes that a stable nation can emerge from the ashes of the Assad regime ...
Israel should annex all of Mount Hermon from Syria
For both strategic and historical reasons, the Jewish state should annex all of the newly acquired parts of Mount Hermon and ...
Assad loyalist tied to a tree and shot in the head in public execution
An Assad loyalist was executed in public by fighters linked to the country’s new Islamist-led administration, according to a ...
International sanctions have left Syria’s health system on life support
U.S. and E.U. sanctions aimed at punishing the former Assad regime have made it more difficult for Syrian hospitals to ...
Syria's Kurdish community at the center of a post-Assad game of geopolitical tug-of-war
The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...
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With election of nationalist president, Lebanon moves to exit the Axis of Resistance
With a nearly unanimous 99 out of 128 votes, the Lebanese parliament elected the head of the army, Gen. Joseph Aoun, as ...
Exclusive: Western powers warn Syria over foreign jihadists in army, sources say
U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior ...