Majd al-Assad, the younger brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad died on Saturday, state media reported.
"Majd Hafez al-Assad died this morning in Damascus after a long illness," the official news agency SANA said, without giving further...
The Syrian authorities must immediately release veteran human rights lawyer Haytham al-Maleh, and drop all charges against him, Amnesty International said, as he appeared before a military judge in Damascus on Tuesday.
He was charged with "conveying...
In a sign of improving relations between Washington and Damascus, the United States is sending a military delegation to Syria in the coming weeks to discuss Iraq, U.S. and Syrian officials said on Wednesday.
Separately, the Obama administration's...
Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari criticized the "logical framework" approach of U.N. Special Envoy Terry Rod Larsen's budget for the implementation of Resolution 1559.
"Syria looks to the secretariat general of the U.N....
Two months away from Lebanon's elections, we can begin to discern clarity amid the vapors of boiling ambition. Over 700 candidates are registered to contest 128 parliamentary seats, but the real story lies elsewhere. Whether it is the March 14 coalition...
