REPORT: Details Of Turkey's Proposed Endgame Plan In Syria Revealed
Turkey has made a new proposal to Russia for an orderly peaceful transition in war-ravaged Syria in the post-regime era, a Turkish newspaper reported on Monday.The proposal calls for President Bashar...
View ArticleWhy Syria's Chemical Weapons Are So Terrifying [INFOGRAPHIC]
The U.S. has said it would intervene if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons in the country's ongoing conflict.Craig Whitlock and Carol Morello of The Washington Post report U.S....
View ArticleVeteran Journalist Says The Media Is Totally Misreporting What's Happening In...
Veteran war correspondent Patrick Cockburn of The Independent has been in Damascus for 10 days and says he is "struck by the fact that the situation in areas of Syria I have visited is wholly different...
View ArticleRussian Military Experts Say The US Patriot Missiles On The Syrian Border Are...
Russia is categorically opposed to the Turkey’s installation of Patriot anti-aircraft missiles along its border with Syria.Most have assumed that the Moscow's opposition was driven by its friendship...
View ArticleNBC Correspondent Richard Engel Has Been Freed From Kidnappers In Syria
Amid widespread concern yesterday, and calls for silence on the topic by NBC, Richard Engel, NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent has been freed from his Syrian captors.Engel and his team were captured...
View ArticleIt's Now 'Almost Inevitable' That Syrian Rebels Will Acquire Chemical Weapons
As Syria's brutal 21-month civil war grinds on, the likelihood of the opposition seizing control of a chemical weapon stockpile or manufacturing site is increasing as rebel groups gain more...
View ArticleThe Terrifying Story Of NBC Correspondent Richard Engel's Syrian Abduction
NBC Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and his crew were driving through what they believed was rebel controlled territory last Wednesday when 15 armed men in ski masks ambushed them.The Syrian...
View ArticleSYRIA EXPERT: Assad Will Eventually Flee To The Coast And Rebels Will Battle...
Syria expert Joshua Landis told Voice of America journalist Cecily Hilleary that he thinks Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will eventually flee to the coastal mountains of his ancestral Alawite...
View Article'Poison Gas Bombs' In Syria Could Force US Intervention
Just hours after Syrian forces bombed a line of starving residents waiting for bread, reports came out that the government used chemical weapons on the city of Homs, a rebel-held city in Western...
View ArticleHere's What The 'Agent-15' Chemical Weapon Probably Used In Syria Does To People
Reports that chemical weapons were used this weekend in Syria were effectively confirmed today after doctors at the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) interviewed witnesses and victims of the...
View ArticleSyrian Regime 'Has No Future' Says US
Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held "constructive" talks in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad, as Washington warned that his regime's days are numbered.As jihadists seized an area populated by the...
View ArticleEven Syrians Are More Optimistic About The Future Than US Republicans
Syrians, who are fighting a civil war in which 40,000 of them have died just this year, are still more optimistic about their own future than US Republicans, recent polls reveal. Republicans also are...
View ArticleSyrian Chief Of Police Defects To The Rebels, Cites Assad's Brutality
The head of Syria's military police has defected from the army and declared allegiance to the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to a video and a Syrian security source.The...
View ArticleThe Number Of Syrian Refugees Is About To Explode
The United Nations on Wednesday predicted the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries will double to 1.1 million by June next year if the country's war is not ended.There are now more than...
View ArticleRussia Warns World That Syria May Turn Into 'Bloody Chaos'
Russia has warned that Syria would descend into "bloody chaos" should a proposal from Lakhdar Brahimi, the international envoy, to set up a transitional government fail.Mr Brahimi, the international...
View ArticleRussia Quietly Announces A Major Shift On Syria
Russia has invited the head of the main Syrian opposition for talks. The Associated Press reports that foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters today that he has officially contacted the Syrian...
View ArticleInvestigators Just Found Evidence Of A Major Atrocity In Syria
Dozens of tortured bodies have been found in a flashpoint district of Damascus, a watchdog reported on Monday, in one of the worst atrocities in Syria's 21-month conflict.The report from the Syrian...
View ArticleREPORT: The West Confirms Chemical Weapons Are Being Used Against Syrian Rebels
Early last week we reported that Syrian rebels were claiming exposure to chemical attacks from the Assad regime and new reports back up their disputed claim.Ynetnews, a widely read Israel newspaper,...
View ArticleNew Syrian Death Toll Figures Show The Horrifying Reality Of The War
A new analysis carried out on behalf of the UN estimates that over 60,000 people have died since the Syrian civil war began 22 months ago.The estimate is the much higher than other figures that have...
View ArticleA US Journalist In Syria Has Been Missing For Six Weeks
BOSTON, Mass. — Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a US journalist on Thanksgiving Day. More than a month later, he remains missing.American James Foley, 39, was last seen on Nov. 22 in Idlib Province....
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