Tunisia wants to reopen its embassy in Syria which has been closed for more than two years and has sent a request in this vein to the government in Damascus. Tunis is yet to receive a reply from Syria’s foreign ministry and a diplomatic source said that the letter has been sent to the foreign [...]
Following the setting up of a united opposition called the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces against the Assad regime, allegiance of recognition as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian state swiftly started flowing. Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council were the first to recognize it as the representative of the Syrian people [...]
As international pressure keeps mounting on Assad to hand over power coupled with accusations of using cluster bombs and threatening to use chemical weapons which it has denied; it is now willing to give an opportunity to a ceasefire. According to the foreign ministry spokesman, Jihad Maqdisi, the government is “interested in exploring” a ceasefire [...]
The Arab League has decided to take its dealings concerning the Syrian crisis to the General Assembly of the United Nations. These revelations were made by the envoy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the UN as he said that the oppression of the Syrian citizens must come to an end because according to [...]
Cairo plays host to a two-day meeting between opposition groups of the Assad regime under the auspices of coming to a conclusion of the proposed UN transitional government peace plan. The meeting is hosted by the Arab League for the first time but organized by the Syrian National Council, Syria’s principal exiled opposition group, and [...]
No one in Turkey, which is a regional power and NATO member, thought that Syria would dare to shot down a Turkish military plane on a training mission. After conducting a forensic review of the sequence of events, the Turkish officials insist that the aircraft was hit in international airspace without warning after mistakenly strayed [...]
Jordanian authorities have granted asylum to the Syrian pilot who defected Thursday from the Syrian air force of Bachar Al Assad and landed his MiG-21 warplane at King Hussein military airbase in Mafraq, close to the Syrian border. The fugitive pilot was given asylum on “humanitarian grounds” because “if he returned home, his safety will [...]
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