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BEIRUT (AP) — On Nov. 13, 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup...

US, UK, France, Germany, Italy condemn Syria’s presidential election    1 Hours A Syrian voter shows a ballot with the pictures of the three candidates in Syria’s presidential election, including President Bashar al-Assad (right), before casting her vote in Damascus on May 26, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP) WASHINGTON, DC (Kurdistan 24) – The foreign ministers of the US and four major European powers issued a statement on Monday, the day before Syria’s presidential election, strongly criticizing the vote. “We, the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, the Uni...

Non-resident Scholar Sam Dagher is an American-Lebanese journalist and author who has lived and worked in the Middle East for more than 16 years. He was the only reporter for a major Western media outlet based fulltime in Damascus in 2012-2014 and writing openly under his byline. He was briefly detained by Assad’s henchmen in an underground prison and later expelled for reporting deemed unfavorable to the regime. Sam contributes to The Atlantic and before that was senior correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and previously reported for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, a...

Syria How a girl from west London became the unlikely winner of Syria’s war WhatsApp Last summer a photograph of Syria’s First Lady circulated on social media. At the time, government troops in north-west Syria were battering the last pockets of rebel resistance to the regime. The picture showed Asma Assad, her husband Bashar al-Assad and their three children standing on a wind-swept hilltop, flanked by soldiers in camouflage. Bashar, dressed in an anorak, trainers and an untucked polo shirt, looks more suited to corralling the kids for a Sunday walk than torturing dissidents. Asma stands...

Obama Says No Plans for Imminent Escalation of Operations Against Islamic State – Wall Street Journalby wpjljron Friday, August 29th, 2014.Obama Says No Plans for Imminent Escalation of Operations Against Islamic State – Wall Street JournalSpeaking at a news conference on Thursday, President Barack Obama said that the Islamic State poses a direct threat to Iraq and the region requiring a broad, comprehensive military strategy to confront it. President Barack Obama signaled the U.S. has no immediate plans to escalate military operations against Islamic State extremists in Iraq or Syria, [�...