by Turki al-Suhail and Nayef al-Rashid | Aug 9, 2017 | Middle East
Riyadh – The Syrian National Coalition for Opposition (SNC), chaired by Riad Seif, arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for talks with Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on various issues related to the Syrian crisis. A few days earlier, Saudi Arabia reiterated its position...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 26, 2017 | Middle East
Washington – US President Donald Trump justified on Monday his decision to end the US program of aiding Syria’s rebel factions, saying that it was “massive, dangerous and wasteful,” reported Agence France Presse. His statements came three days after General Tony...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 22, 2017 | Middle East
London- CIA Director Mike Pompeo has launched a scathing attack on Iran, accusing it of adopting an expansionist policy to pursue regional hegemony and dubbing the head of the Syrian regime a “puppet of the Iranians.” The defeat of ISIS is America’s top priority at...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 18, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut – Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed the need to resolve the dispute over Syrian regime head Bashar al-Assad remaining in power in order to reach a solution to terrorism. “We have heard from the international community that it is not interested...
by Taha Abdelwahed, Youssef Diab | Jul 16, 2017 | Middle East
Moscow, Beirut – Russian Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Alexei Borodavkin said on Saturday that the UN-led Syria talks have a chance to make progress because demands for the overthrow of regime leader Bashar Assad have receded. Borodavkin told...
