Latest in Tag: Syria Highlight
Latest in Tag: Syria
US Patriot missiles begin arriving in Turkey
The United States will transport some 400 troops to Turkey in the next several days to operate two Patriot batteries
Syria backs plan for talks to end conflict
On Sunday, regime forces unleashed a fierce offensive in the central city of Homs after overrunning Deir Baalbeh
Brahimi says has Syria plan all world powers may back
Brahimi held talks in Moscow on Saturday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on his end-of-year bid to accelerate moves to halt the conflict that monitors say has killed 45,000 people
Russia sees chance of Syria solution but Assad defiant
Brahimi and Lavrov revealed no details of any peace initiative that may be under discussion
Syria military police chief defects to opposition
The high-level defection, while not a strategically significant development in the 21-month-old conflict, will be a blow to morale for Assad’s forces, which are hitting back at a string of rebel advances across the country
Gulf states lash out at Iran, urge rapid Syria transition
By Assaad Abboud Manama (AFP) – The six Gulf states sharpened their tone against their Shi’a neighbour Iran on Tuesday, demanding an immediate halt to its “interference” in their internal affairs while urging a rapid political transition in its ally Syria. Concluding a two-day summit in Manama, the Gulf Cooperation Council …
Protest against Iraq PM blocks highway to Syria
Sectarian tensions are still significant in Iraq, which suffered years of brutal confessional violence
NATO says Syria regime firing ‘Scud-style missiles’
The latest launches were detected on Thursday and that was corroborated by an activist in the rebel-held town of Marea in the northern province of Aleppo
Nephews of Syria vice president arrested: NGO
Along with five of their friends over their support for democratic change
UN special envoy visits Cairo for Syria meetings
Arab League and foreign ministry host special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi after Morsy discussed plans for Syrian coalition headquarters in Egypt
US journalist Engel freed after Syria kidnapping
NBC News chief foreign correspondent and his production crew members have been freed unharmed after being kidnapped in Syria
Assad deputy at odds with president over Syria war
Syrian VP said he preferred a negotiated solution to the 21-month conflict
Post Bashar Syria: Local, Global and Regional Players.
The United States has probably started on the bad side of Syria by putting “Al-Nusrah Front” on the list of terrorist organisations. There are legitimate fears and concerns that neighbouring countries and the west have over the destabilisation of an already volatile region. However, insisting on delegitimizing Al-Nusrah will only complicate matters worse. The world …
Political turmoil marks Iraq’s first post-US year
Disputes among Iraqi politicians escalated as US troops departed on 18 December
Syria troops press assault on town near Damascus
The outskirts of Damascus have been at the heart of fighting this month as the regime launches operations to reclaim territory
Russia says no change on Syria stance
Foreign ministry spokesman denies acceptance of end of Al-Assad regime
US confirms Syria has used Scuds against rebels
Short-range ballistic missiles used inside Syria
Fears of Syria chemical arms founded but use unlikely
Damascus has insisted it would never deploy chemical arms in the 21-month conflict
Jihadists seize key north Syria army base
The latest violence comes two days ahead of a Friends of Syria nations meeting in Marrakesh
Germany expels four Syrian embassy staff
Germany had expelled its Syrian ambassador in May, along with France, Britain, Italy and Spain
Syria-linked clashes kill six in Lebanon
The fighting broke a tense calm that had held since the army deployed troops between the two impoverished neighbourhoods early on Friday
UN urges Palestinians to stay out of Syria conflict
“Nobody should put them into the crisis”
Germany ready to send 400 troops to Turkey-Syria border
The mandate, which is expected to be presented to parliament early next week, would run to January 31, 2014.
NATO approves Patriot missiles for Turkey
Turkey welcomed NATO’s decision, and reiterated that the weapons are solely for defensive purposes
Alarm over Syria’s secretive chemical weapons
A US official told AFP that Syria had begun mixing chemicals that could be used to make sarin
Syrian pro-regime journalist assassinated in Damascus
The killing marked the second of a journalist in Tadamun in less than a fortnight
Syria says will never use chemical arms against own people
Damascus acknowledged for the first time in late July that it possessed chemical weapons
Middle East and the global chess game
The aftermath of the Arab Spring has not ceased. It is not clear what the region will settle for or how long this process will take. Many academic scholars prior to the outbreak of the Arab Spring questioned if there was a “democratic transition” at all. They assumed that these “survivalist” regimes were in a …
Turkish-Arab cooperation forum held in Istanbul
Palestine and Syria top the agenda
NATO to give go-ahead to Patriot deployment in Turkey
A team of NATO experts has been in Turkey to survey sites near the Syrian border that would serve as suitable locations for the deployment of the missiles