December 1, 2013
8:50 pm

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama administration ‘screwed up’ Syria deal, congressman says

From the web House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (MI-R) tells CNN that agreement to strip Assad of chemical weapons closed door on armistice

December 1, 2013
8:18 pm

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90/File)

Olmert: PM has ‘declared war on the US government’

Netanyahu’s attacks on Obama’s Iran policy are ‘misguided and dangerous,’ former prime minister charges, says there are better ways to exert influence

By Raphael Ahren

December 1, 2013
4:54 pm

An illustrative photo of a Sunni gunman firing his weapon during clashes that erupted between pro and anti-Syrian regime gunmen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon in December 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Sectarian violence in northern Lebanon leaves 8 dead

Sunni Muslims, Alawite supporters of Bashar Assad battle in Tripoli, injuring at least 60

By AP

December 1, 2013
6:48 am

Syrian rebel fighters return from the battlefield in Idlib province, Syria, September 2013 (photo credit: AP)

US: American fighters in Syria a security risk

At least 3 Americans have been charged this year with planning to fight Assad regime alongside al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusrah

By Emery P. Dalesio

December 1, 2013
1:54 am

Black smoke billows in the air from heavy shelling near Damascus, Syria, on Monday, November 4, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian PM: Government winning civil war

From the web ‘Era of victory and pride is being created now on Syrian soil,’ Wael Halki says during state visit to Iran, Reuters reports

November 30, 2013
1:07 pm

This image, made from a video posted on September 18, 2013, shows Syrians in protective suits and gas masks conducting a drill on how to treat casualties of a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria (photo credit: AP)

US offers to destroy Syrian chemical arms offshore

Washington may contribute destruction technology, operational support and financing to neutralizing weapons in Mediterranean

By Albert Aji and Toby Sterling

November 29, 2013
3:20 pm

Hezbollah fighters hold party flags during a parade in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla/File)

Syria fighting kills 19 Hezbollah fighters in 10 days

From the web Daily Star: Lebanese militia holds funerals for its fighters, including the nephew of country’s agriculture minister

November 29, 2013
11:34 am

A Syrian boy carries a water jug to his family's tent at the Zaatari Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon/File)

UN: Syria refugee children working, missing school

Children as young as seven working manual labor jobs to earn bread for families

By Barbara Surk

November 28, 2013
11:46 pm

Damage from a mortar strike at the Yuhana al-Dimashqi School in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Fear in Syrian capital as mortar shells rain down

With Assad’s forces making gains, rebels have been hitting back with volleys into central Damascus

By Albert Aji and Zeina Karam

November 28, 2013
7:48 pm

Syrian government soldiers and citizens gather at a bus station which was attacked by a suicide car bomb, in the town of Sumariyah, southwest of Damascus, Syria on Tuesday November 26, 2013. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syrian regime takes town as battle rages for key border area

Deir Attiyeh, in Qalamoun region near border with Lebanon, captured by army; Russian Embassy hit by mortars

By AP

November 28, 2013
5:26 pm

Children in front of the explosion outside Damascus. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Video of children narrowly avoiding blast highlights plight of Syrian youth

Report by British group claims over 11,000 children have been killed in civil war, including 764 who were executed

By Joshua Davidovich

November 28, 2013
5:16 pm

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Zayed, February 13, 2012. (screen capture: Youtube/baynetna)

UAE foreign minister arrives on rare Iran visit

Nations are divided on a number of issues, though Arab gulf country was one of the first in the region to welcome nuclear deal

By AP and Times of Israel staff

November 28, 2013
9:18 am

Syrian President Bashar Assad giving an interview in Damascus, September 2013 (photo credit: screenshot of Fox News)

Assad lauds Tehran’s ‘resilience’ in nuclear talks

Syrian president, Iranian counterpart speak over phone; Rouhani voices support for Assad’s ‘war against terrorism’

By Times of Israel staff and AP

November 28, 2013
1:46 am

UN Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi addresses the media at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday (photo credit: AP/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Syria, opposition both confirm presence at talks

Opposition head rejects Iran’s participation in the conference unless it withdraws forces fighting on Assad’s behalf

By Albert Aji and Steve Negus

November 28, 2013
1:24 am

Illustrative photo of the USS Kearsarge steaming into the Gulf of Aqaba (photo credit: Official US Navy Imagery/File)

US offers to destroy Syrian chemical weapons at sea

The plan, still subject to final approval, calls for disposal to take place on an American ship in the Mediterranean

By Lolita C. Baldor and Pauline Jelinek

Topic: Syria