by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 11, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that the shelling of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday Feb. 10 was carried out by two U.S. aircraft and that Russian planes had not been operating in the area. A Pentagon spokesman had blamed Russian and Syria...
by Fatah Al-Rahman Youssef | Apr 30, 2014 | Business
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The expression “when Xyou sneezes, YI catches a cold” could have been coined to describe the relationship, both political and economic, between Syria and Lebanon. Joined at the hip since their birth as independent states, instability in one...
by Nazeer Rida | Mar 18, 2014 | Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sectarian tensions have been reignited in Lebanon after the Syrian government announced the capture of the strategic border town of Yabroud on Sunday, a critical blow to the predominantly Sunni Syrian rebels seeking to topple the Assad...
by Mohamed Zangeneh | Dec 25, 2013 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—An agreement has been reached between the Syrian Kurdish National Council (KNC) and the Syria-based Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) on Syrian Kurdish participation at the Geneva II conference. After eight days of meetings between the...
by Ali Ibrahim | Dec 25, 2013 | Opinion
With the Syrian civil war set to enter its fourth year in March, having exacted terrible human losses upon the country which have dwarfed even those of previous civil wars and internal conflicts in the region, and with increasingly more brutal atrocities committed by...
