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…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government said they accepted the proposal for ending the violence in his country, but regime-sponsored attacks continued amidst doubts whether Assad would uphold his commitment. According to a Tuesday press statement from the spokesman for United…
After multiple failed efforts to unite the United Nations Security Council to condemn the Syrian regime for its brutal crackdown on the opposition, the Council unanimously endorsed a six-point plan aimed at ending the violence in the country. The Council…