With the United Nations gearing up for an expanded peacekeeping operation in Syria in a bid to end the violence there, the spokesman for the UN’s envoy to the country said the advance team of observers is already making an…
After an initial decrease in violence in Syria after a ceasefire went into effect last Thursday, renewed conflict has raised concerns as a United Nations observer mission is being discussed. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a letter to the…
Both sides sounded optimistic following Saturday’s meeting between the representatives of the international powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program, with another meeting set for next month. Israel, meanwhile, was displeased by what sounded like an uneventful outcome of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with a Palestinian delegation next week, where he intends to propose direct talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinians have rarely agreed to direct talks with Israel since Netanyahu took…
With just one day to go until a brokered ceasefire in the internal Syrian conflict was supposed to take effect, gunfire from Syria resulted in casualties across the border in Turkey. The incident occurred even as a Turkish newspaper cited…
One day after the spokesman for Syria’s Foreign Ministry claimed the attempt to overthrow the state had failed, a number of nations clearly indicated otherwise by increasing their support for the Syrian opposition. Included in that group is the United…