Once an ally of Syria's Assad, Hamas shifted its support to the rebels last year, which greatly affected its relations with its financial backer, Iran.
by Reuters 1 comments
Assad's troops are starting an offensive to regain the rebel-dominated north and remaining rebel strongholds around Damascus.
by Reuters 0 comments
Meir Dagan to headline major panel at fifth Israeli presidential conference hosted by Shimon Peres.
by Haaretz 9 comments
These are the highest numbers since 1994, when people fled genocide in Rwanda and bloodshed in former Yugoslavia, the UN refugee agency reports.
by The Associated Press 1 comments
The U.S. is preparing Jordanian forces for their potential role in securing Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles should Bashar Assad's regime lose control.
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Many Kurds in Syria are thought to be fighting with Assad, but their counterparts in Turkey are largely staying out of the fight even if their government is not.
by Anshel Pfeffer 0 comments
Isolated at global summit, Russia's Putin clashed with other leaders, resisting their attempts to get him to agree to anything that would imply Assad should step down.
by Reuters 0 comments
Rather than scrounging for replacement troops, the UN should ask why Israel should have any faith in the peacekeeping that has failed to protect it so many times in the past.
by James Kirchick 16 comments
Russia said on sidelines of G-8 that it would prevent no-fly zone in Syria, to which U.S. said such option not on table at NATO.
by Reuters 6 comments
Sources in Cairo tell Haaretz that an on-going meeting of the Hamas political bureau in Cairo is due to internal differences of opinion within Hamas regarding the crisis in Syria.
by Jack Khoury 5 comments
