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Jordan took over the UN Security Council presidency on Wednesday, the first day of its two-year stint on a 15-nation body struggling to cope with conflicts in Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere. The country got access Read more
François Hollande’s two day visit to Saudi Arabia has come to an end. The French president was accompanied by a delegation of four ministers and 30 businessmen. During his visit, he held talks with King Abdullah with whom he discussed Read more
Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the Great Britain, has renewed the kingdom’s determination in Syria and concerns about the Iranian nuclear program. He also held the West responsible for the looming insecurity in the region Read more
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has openly accused the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of being behind the last month Iranian embassy bomb attack. This is the first time such an accusation has been leveled directly against Riyadh by Read more
President Assad has outlined certain terms necessary to achieve a political solution to the Syrian war. He was speaking with the Lakhdar Brahimi, joint envoy of the Arab league and the UN, in Damascus when he made these remarks. Efforts Read more
The civil war in Syria has affected many of its neighboring countries amongst them the one that is menacing to fall into chaos as well is Lebanon that lost its government when Prime Mnister Najib Mikati announced that the cabinet Read more
Excerpts of an interview with President Assad aired by Russia Today showed the president remaining steadfast to his position of remaining in power as bloodshed continues to engulf the country and the opposition group Syrian National Council (SNC) meets in Read more
As government forces intensify their aerial attacks, the opposition might soon be going through in what could be considered as a reform after the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said that the opposition factor called the Syrian National Council Read more
Alarmed by the worsening humanitarian situation of hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians and by their increasing numbers, the United Nations refugee agency and its humanitarian aid partners on Thursday requested an additional $295 million to help fund the refugees’ Read more
The summit of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran has barely begun before attacks from the outgoing country presiding over the movement led to a walkout by Syria. 120 states are in attendance for the two-day tri-annual event. Opened Read more