CAIRO, May 22, 2013 (AFP) The Arab League said on Thursday it will submit to the UN Security Council a list of proposals for a June peace conference aimed at ending the conflict in Syria. The pan-Arab body's Syria committee, which met in Cairo on Thursday, agreed on "several points to help the next international conference in Geneva succeed," it said in a statement without elaborating. Qatari Prime Minister ...

By Omar Al-Muqdad Morocco World News Washington, May 23, 2013 The Syrian crisis has entered its third year. There is no clear idea of what will happen next. What is known is that fighting continues every day and the number of victims rises. Syrians become refugees in neighboring countries as they flee the killing. Soon there will be a million Syrians living as refugees. Neither side knows what will come nex ...

DAMASCUS, May 23, 2013 (AFP) President Bashar Al Assad told a Tunisian delegation on Thursday he was determined to crush the rebellion against his regime and to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, SANA news agency reported. “Syria is determined to tackle terrorism and those who support it regionally and globally, and to find a political solution to the crisis,” Assad was quoted as telling the ...

DAMASCUS, May 14, 2013 (AFP) Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday. "If the government of (Prime Minister Recep Tayyip) Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth," In ...

TUNIS, May 11, 2013 (AFP) Tunisian Foreign Minister Othmane Jarandi told AFP on Saturday that some 800 Tunisians are fighting in Islamist rebel ranks in Syria and said the country would work to repatriate its citizens taken prisoner there. "We don't have exact numbers, since several people left the country illegally, but the most accurate estimate is a maximum of 800," fighting in Syria, he said. Tunis has ...

WASHINGTON,May 10, 2013 (AFP) US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday there was "strong evidence" that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against rebel forces. "This fight is about the terrible choices that the Assad regime has made with its willingness to kill anywhere... to use gas, which we believe there is strong evidence of use of," Kerry said during a Google+ ...

MOSCOW, May 10, 2013 (AFP) British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed joint options for ending the crisis in Syria amid a new diplomatic push to resolve the two-year conflict. Cameron's rare call on Putin at his summer vacation residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi came three days after top US and Russian diplomats agreed to make a joint effort in sear ...

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 ...

BEIRUT, May 6, 2013 (AFP) Israeli air raids on three military sites near Damascus killed at least 42 soldiers at the weekend, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in an updated toll on Monday. "At least 42 soldiers were killed in the strikes, and another 100 who would usually be at the targeted sites remain unaccounted for," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. The Britain-based monitori ...

CAIRO, May 02, 2013 (AFP) – UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is thinking about stepping down as the Syrian war becomes more intractable, but is likely to stay on until at least mid-May, a senior aide said on Thursday   UN and Arab diplomats said on Wednesday the veteran envoy was on the verge of quitting over his frustration with international divisions over Syria and the increased militarisation ...

April 30, 2013 (AFP) Hezbollah fighters are aiding troops in Syria to combat the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, the head of the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement confirmed on Tuesday. "A large number of (rebels) were preparing to capture villages inhabited by Lebanese," so it was "normal to offer every possible and necessary aid to help the Syrian army, popular committees (pro-government milit ...

April 30, 2013 (AFP) The chief of powerful Lebanese Shiite Muslim party Hezbollah, a close Damascus ally, said on Tuesday that Syria's friends would not let the embattled regime of President Bashar al-Assad fall. "Syria has true friends in the region who will not allow Syria to fall into the hands of the United States, Israel and 'takfiri' groups," Hassan Nasrallah said in a television broadcast, referring ...