Syria opposition open key talks in Turkey

After more than 80,000 dead and millions driven from their homes, can Syria's opposition and President Bashar al-Assad's regime really negotiate a political settlement? At least one opposition leader is willing to give it a try. Former Syrian ...

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Syria's most-developed rebel government is struggling for legitimacy because it can't afford to provide public services. Foreign aid is going to fighters, NGOs instead. Abu Araf lives under the Syrian opposition's most well-developed transitional ...

The Syrian Opposition Council is the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people, the White House has said.

Syrias main opposition National Council has elected Ghassan Hitto, a communications executive who has lived in the US for decades, as premier for large swathes of rebel-held territory mired in cha...

Amid growing signs of exasperation, the Syrian opposition, locked in a bloody conflict with government forces, has announced it would not participate in a pro-opposition international conference, unless the western powers intervene more pointedly to defuse ...

Syrian National Council, Iran troops

CAIRO: The Arab League (AL) said on Thursday it will submit to the UN Security Council (UNSC) a list of proposals for a June peace conference aimed at ending the conflict in Syria. The pan-Arab body's Syria committee, which met in Cairo on Thursday, ...

DAMASCUS: Britain warned Syrian President Bashar Al Assad on Monday that no option is off the table over the possible arming of Syrian rebels while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it is crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in ...