The Syrian civil war has continued it’s intensive bloodshed into the new year, and the United States expressed it’s horror on Wednesday at this week’s regime attack near the University of Aleppo that resulted in the death of more than…
Syrian President Bashas al-Assad on Sunday presented his plan for a ceasefire and political reforms in his country in a speech the government-affiliated Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said was delivered at the Opera House in Damascus. Previously it had…
The new year is upon us and Syria is still in the headlines. The United Nations is now saying 60,000 people have died in the nearly two-years-old conflict. But judging by the situation today, The Mideast Update predicts that 2013…
Syria’s Scuds and Sarin have long been considered consequential gamechangers by the international community. Horror that they would be turned against their own populace has repeatedly been expressed by the international community. It has even been called a “red line.”…
The Al Jazeera Syria blog reported on Monday allegations from Syrian opposition activists saying that some type of poisonous gas attack by the Syrian authorities has killed seven people. A European Union spokesperson said they could not verify the report.…
The past few weeks has seen the Middle East face a whole host of tragic issues: rioting and even gun violence in Egypt, the further use of violence against civilians in Syria, the outrageous hate speech from Hamas against Israel…