The Daily Star
Agencies A rebel fighter fires his machine gun at Syrian government troops at the citadel in the town of Harem, on the Turkish border. The head of the main opposition Syrian National Council Thursday blamed international inaction in Syria for the...
Russia Today
The United States is doing everything possible to salvage 'operation Syria' and in doing so hedging all their bets on its success, says Eric Draitser, geopolitical analyst from stopimperialism.com. But that strategy, Draitser believes, will fail. ...
National Public Radio
The proposal, reports The New York Times , calls for a "phased-in truce" and the "establishment of a transitional authority," but does stop short of calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad. As the Times reads it, this overture "appeared to...
NOW Lebanon
Frustrated with the divisions in the Syrian opposition and its Syrian National Council, Washington is pushing for a wider political force, more representative of the people fighting on the ground and able to curb an Islamist hijack of the revolution.
The Boston Globe
Members of Syria's opposition-in-exile bristled Thursday at the Obama administration's suggestion that Washington will handpick more representative leaders at a crucial conference in Qatar next week. The new U.S. push appears aimed at creating a...
Boston.com
Syrian rebels killed 78 soldiers on Thursday, about half of them in attacks on military checkpoints in the north just hours after a wave of bombings hit the Damascus area, activists said. The unusually high toll for regime forces came after days of...