The Daily Star
Syrians believe 40 years of Assad family rule is too long, the international mediator for Syria said, the closest he has come to calling directly for President Bashar Assad to quit. He spoke as the first major prisoner swap in the 21-month conflict...
Qatar English Daily
President Bashar Al Assad's plan for Syria is perhaps even more sectarian, more one-sided than previous such initiatives by the embattled regime, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told the BBC yesterday. The UN and Arab League envoy was...
Los Angeles Times
Syrian opposition fighters Wednesday released 48 Iranians captured in August in exchange for the freeing of at least 2,130 detainees held by President Bashar Assad 's government, in the largest prisoner swap of the country's civil war, officials said.
Al Jazeera
05 Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly stressed he will not step down [Reuters] The international peace envoy for Syria has said he does not see President Bashar al-Assad being part of a transitional government envisaged by a peace plan...
The Christian Science Monitor
A global response to this humanitarian crisis might help diffuse differences over political solutions...Will the anti-Assad opposition coalition ever be a viable alternative?
Zee News
Opponents of a law banning US nationals from adopting Russian children were granted permission here Wednesday to hold a protest march in central Moscow Jan 13, officials and rally organisers said. The ban is part of a wider response by Moscow to the...