I find the rapprochement between Syria and Turkey important in spite of all the reservations of the Baath regime. This is more than just a regime issue from the perspective

Visiting Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, and Hamas leader Khaled Mishaal called in a meeting in Damascus on Tuesday for extending assistance to the besieged Gaza people.

- Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad has called for immediate Arab and international moves to check the Israeli occupation authority's policy of racial cleansing against the Palestinians in the West Bank

The most flagrant sign of the decline of Arab nationalist regimes is their transformation into hereditary republics.

Despite Syria's constitution which bans torture, detainees still face torture and sometimes death as investigations reveal.

An informed source of the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has reported, with much distress, that there has been absolutely no news of Nizar Rastnawi in Sednaya Military Prison, and

With the dreadful threat of yet another Israeli war in the Middle East looming, Israeli propaganda machine is likely to go into full gear, argues Ramzy Baroud.