International News Syria says to discuss Russia peace plan talks, opposition rejects Noha Gad Dec 27, 2014 0 Syria said on Saturday it is willing to participate in "preliminary consultations" in Moscow aimed at restarting…
MENA News Islamic State Says Seizes Second Gas Field in Syria Yomna Yasser Nov 3, 2014 0 Islamic State fighters in Syria said on Monday they had taken control of a gas field in the central province of…
Egypt News Egypt FM Meets Syrian Opposition Leader in Cairo Yomna Yasser Oct 30, 2014 0 Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with Syria's exiled opposition leader Hady Al-Bahra in Cairo on…
MENA News Obama Orders U.S. Airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State Yomna Yasser Sep 11, 2014 0 President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes for the first time in Syria…
Egypt News Syria and Egypt’s Tale of Two Polls Could End in the Same Old Story Yomna Yasser Jun 5, 2014 0 No one was holding their breath for the results of Syria's presidential election, which was always certain to…
MENA News Once on the edge of defeat, Syria’s Assad runs again for president Yomna Yasser Jun 2, 2014 0 It was not so long ago that Bashar al-Assad’s enemies thought he was finished. In the summer of 2012, the rebels…
Egypt News Egypt’s Sisi Says Syria Crisis Should End via Peaceful Means Yomna Yasser May 13, 2014 0 Egypt's presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday the Syrian civil war must be resolved through…
MENA News Bomb in Syria’s Idlib kills 30 government fighters: monitoring group Yomna Yasser May 6, 2014 0 About 30 Syrian government fighters were killed when rebels set off a bomb in a tunnel beneath a checkpoint in a…
MENA News Syria Presidential Vote on 3 June: Parliament Speaker Yomna Yasser Apr 21, 2014 0 Syria will hold presidential elections that are expected to return President Bashar al-Assad to office on 3 June,…
Egypt News Egypt Arrests Alleged ‘Terrorist’ Who Fought in Syria Yomna Yasser Apr 13, 2014 0 Egypt has arrested a veteran of the Syrian civil war on suspicion of planning terrorist acts inside Egypt, the…