Syria Conflict & Tragedy News

Following his meeting with Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams said that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is looking forward to meeting with Hariri during the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen this week....

Ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Saturday that a “warm welcome” awaits Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Syria. The daily said Hariri will most likely visit Syria after President Michel Sleiman returns from his mid-December visit to Washington, adding that “all arrangements...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in Syria, using their powers for good. The celebrity übercouple visited Iraqi refugees in Damascus today in an attempt to keep the lowest-profile victims of the war from falling off the radar, People reports....

Emerging from international isolation with a flurry of high-level Western visitors and ties boosted with Turkey, Syria has gained in confidence to the point of holding out on an EU partnership. The European Union hoped to sign a partnership accord on...

A source close to Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh told Al-Hayat newspaper on Thursday that Franjieh stopped his mediation efforts to reach an agreement between Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun after Aoun...

Development and Liberation bloc MP Qassem Hashem told the Kuwaiti Al-Anbaa newspaper that he expects a new cabinet to be formed within the next ten days. He added that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has a better chance at forming a...

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir said on Monday that for him to visit Syria is “out of the question.” He also said that Hezbollah “is an armed party with known motives.” Sfeir said that he is against Palestinian naturalization, highlighting...

Syrian President’s political advisor Bouthaina Shaaban told Syrian newspaper Al-Watan on Tuesday that Damascus is pleased to see a cabinet formed in Lebanon, stating, “Lebanon is a friend; its security and stability are our security and stability.” Shaaban stressed that...