Brussles, June 14, 2013 (AFP) The European Union on Friday said U.S. allegations about the use of chemical weapons reinforced the need for U.N. inspectors to be deployed to Syria, and for increased efforts to find a political solution to the conflict. A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the bloc had seen with "great concern the conclusions of the statement" by the White House on Th ...

Paris, May 30, 2013 (AFP) France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says some 3,000 to 4,000 fighters from Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah were currently battling alongside regime troops in Syria. "Regarding the Hezbollah militants present in the conflict, numbers vary between 3,000 and 10,000. Our estimate is around 3 to 4,000," the minister told the foreign affairs committee at France's lower hou ...

Moscow, May 28, 2013 Russia will go ahead with plans to deliver S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria despite Western opposition and Israel saying it would “know how to act” if Syrians receive the advanced weapons system. Moscow said that by sending in the anti-aircraft system, it would deter “hotheads” intent on intervention in the two-year-old conflict, the deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday, accordi ...

GENEVA , May 06, 2013 (AFP) A UN team of investigators into rights abuses in Syria stressed Monday there was no conclusive proof of either side in the conflict using chemical weapons, despite a team member's claims to the contrary. "The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons i ...

May 5, 2013 (AFP) ISRAEL carried out a rocket attack on the Jamraya scientific research centre in Damascus overnight, the official Syrian news agency SANA has reported. The agency did not say whether there were any wounded or dead. The "Israeli attack aims at loosening the noose around the terrorists in the eastern Ghouta" region, near Damascus, Syrian television added. If confirmed, the attack would be Isr ...

Morocco World News New York, March 29, 2013 Has the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad been killed? This is the question that millions around the globe, especially in the Arab world, must be asking. Over the past few days, there have been rumors pointing out that the ostracized Syrian President has been shot by one of his Iranian bodyguards. Other rumors allege that he fled Syria. The Syrian government was qu ...

March 23, 2013 Residents of Daraa say their houses have been burned intentionally by the Syrian regime and their supports, reported Al Arabiya correspondent Rima Maktabi. Maktabi met personally with the residents from this Daraa village to get the scoop. The southern city of Daraa, is what most people call the cradle of the revolution after at least 15 children were arrested for painting anti-government gra ...

 CAIRO, March 21, 2013 (AFP) Syrian actress Ragda sparked a melee in a Cairo poetry convention after she praised Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, angering an Islamist in the crowd, witnesses said. The actress, who lives in Cairo, read a poem praising the dictator and condemning the Muslim Brotherhood, the ruling movement in Egypt whose Syrian branch opposes Assad, during the convention on Wednesday. An Is ...

Istanbul, March 18, 2013  (AFP) Syria's main opposition National Council on Monday elected Ghassan Hitto, a communications executive who has lived in the United States for decades, as premier for large swathes of rebel-held territory mired in chaos and poverty. "Ghassan Hitto has won with 35 out of 48 votes," Coalition member Hisham Marwa told reporters in Istanbul, Turkey. The vote came after some 14 hours ...

March 17, 2013 Syrian rebels have seized several weapons depots in the village of Khan Toman in Aleppo province after days of fierce clashes, a military source told AFP on Sunday. “Opposition fighters gained control over weapons and ammunition stores in the village of Khan Toman in southern Aleppo province on Saturday after fierce fighting that went on for more than three days,” the source said. He said the ...

By Louise Riondel Morocco World News Rennes, France, March 16, 2013 Two years after the beginning of the anti-government uprising which has killed over 70.000 in Syria, the French President reaffirmed his support to a weapons plan in Brussels. For François Hollande, selling weapons to Syrian rebels is the logical next step in the country's fight against terrorism. Both France and the UK want the EU embargo ...

March 06, 2013 Brigadier General Salim Idriss, the current Chief of Staff of the Free Syrian Army, accused Iraq Wednesday of interfering in Syria based on Iranian orders. Idriss was referring to recent cross border attacks on FSA positions by the Iraqi armed forces, but said the rebel army does not want any side conflict with any Arab state. Idriss came to Brussels on Wednesday to plead with the internation ...