ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom (AFP) G8 leaders on Tuesday threw their weight behind calls for a peace conference on Syria to be held in Geneva "as soon as possible", after a summit dominated by the country's civil war. At the end of two days of talks in Northern Ireland, the leaders also called for agreement on a transitional government in Syria "with full executive powers, formed by mutual consent". British ...

June 17, 2013 Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, including his policy on the Syrian conflict. “We’re talking now more new interventions,” said Palin, who is also former governor of Alaska. “Until we have a commander in chief who knows what he’s doing... I say let Allah sort it out.” She was addressing attendees of the Faith and ...

June 17, 2013 Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, including his policy on the Syrian conflict. “We’re talking now more new interventions,” said Palin, who is also former governor of Alaska. “Until we have a commander in chief who knows what he’s doing... I say let Allah sort it out.” She was addressing attendees of the Faith and ...

By Omar Almuqdad Morocco World News Washington, June 16, 2013 Since its beginnings in 2011, armed conflict in Syria has escalated dramatically with major human loss, hundreds of thousands of refugees, and extensive damage to infrastructure and properties. Cultural heritage in all its forms has suffered from the direct and indirect effects of this ongoing conflict. Syria’s World Heritage sites together with ...

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2013 (AFP) US President Barack Obama discussed the Syria conflict with European leaders ahead of next week's G8 summit in Northern Ireland, the White House said Saturday. Obama spoke late Friday with British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it said in a statement. "The five leaders ...

Moscow, June 15, (Reuters) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday any attempt to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria using F-16 fighter jets and Patriot missiles from Jordan would violate international law. Russia, which has protected Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from three U.N. Security Council resolutions aimed at pressuring him to end violence, vehemently opposes any foreign military in ...

June 14, 2014 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said his militia’s intervention in Syria was “late” and came in response to a “global project” led by the United States and Israel to control not only Syrian but the Middle East as a whole. Nasrallah dismissed accusations that his militia is leading a sectarian war in Syria. “The conflict in Syrian is not between doctrines, not between Shiites and Su ...

Gaza City, June 14, 2013 (AFP) Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya denied on Friday that members of the Palestinian movement were fighting in the Syrian civil war. He also rejected reports of internal divisions within the Sunni Muslim group over its ties with Shiite Iran and its ally, Lebanon’s powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah. “There is no truth to (claims) that Hamas fighters are in Syria, althoug ...

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2013 (AFP) The United States dramatically toughened its stance on Syria on Thursday, accusing Bashar al-Assad of using chemical weapons against his people and promising "military support" to rebel forces. President Barack Obama's administration announced it had conducted a review of intelligence reports and concluded that Syrian regime forces had used banned arms, including the nerve ga ...

June 13, 2013 The photo of a Syrian child wearing the jersey of FC Barcelona has gone viral on the social media, stirring widespread outrage online at the brutality of the Syrian regime’s army. When Ahmad Othman, 14, was killed on May 2, his photo was published by #Tweet4SyrianChild, a Twitter campaign that highlights the suffering of Syrian children. The photo soon went viral after the Spanish daily newspa ...

CAIRO, June 13, 2013 (AFP)  Influential Sunni clerics from several Arab states including Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on Thursday for a holy war against the "sectarian" regime in Syria. “We must undertake jihad to help our brothers in Syria by sending them money and arms, and providing all aid to save the Syrian people from this sectarian regime," they said in a statement at the end of a gathering in Cairo ...

June 10, 2013 The parents of a 14-year-old boy who was killed by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in Syria’s Aleppo after being accused of heresy were heartbroken over their son’s death and said they had resorted to the opposition Free Syrian Army to help them find the killers. Mohammad’s parents said they could not understand why their son was killed and not just punished. “They [Islamists] said he is a kafir (in ...