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ISRAEL OUT Israeli soldiers are seen near an Iron Dome battery near Jerusalem, om Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Gil Yohanan)
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Improvised mortar shells ready to be used by rebel fighters are stacked at a factory in the city of Aleppo, Syria, on September 21, 2013. (EPA/JM LOPEZ)
Syrian opposition call Rouhani’s mediation offer “laughable”
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—On Saturday, the National Coalition for Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces rejected a mediation offer made by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday. In an article published in the Washington Post on September 19, Rouhani said he...Caption:
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on September 19, 2013, shows Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad gesturing during an interview with Fox News in the capital, Damascus. (AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA)
Syria: Assad committed to UN chemical plan as ISIS HQ besieged by FSA
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—In an interview in Damascus with the US-based Fox News Network Wednesday evening, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad said he was committed to the UN plan to destroy Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons. He added that the process of destroying...Caption:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reacts during his joint news conference with Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London September 9, 2013. (REUTERS/Alastair Grant/pool)
Opinion: The Question that Became an Initiative
The massive diplomatic wave, which as we can see today is moving from one world capital to another, passing through Syria into Iran, began with a question from a female journalist during a September 9 joint press conference in London between the US Secretary of State...Caption:
Ake Sellstrom (L), head of the chemical weapons team working in Syria, hands a report on the August 21, 2013 Al-Ghouta massacre to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York, in this handout picture provided by the United Nations September 15, 2013. (REUTERS/Paulo Filgueiras/UN Photo/Handout via Reuters)