In Kerry, Obama picks foreign policy leader, loyal stalwart
Report by Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:24pm EST (Reuters) – John Kerry gave up his presidential dreams after a narrow loss to Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. election, but More...
Putin backs tit-for-tat response to U.S. rights law
Report by Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:15pm EST (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin backed a ban on Americans adopting Russian children on Thursday in a feud over a More...
U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad
Report by Oliver Holmes, BEIRUT | Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:14pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad’s future to More...
In Syrian sanctions, some gains but much uncertainty
Two months into anti-government protests in Syria last year, as the military crackdown grew more vicious, the European Union and United States introduced sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad, his security More...
Assad’s forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital
(Reuters) – Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on Sunday of committing a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army had just retaken More...
Syria rebels say fighting army in Salaheddine
Syrian rebels said they had regained control over parts of a strategic district of Aleppo on Thursday after countering a sustained assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces seeking to retake Syria’s More...
Syrian prime minister defects, fighting goes on
Syrian forces pressed on with their offensive against rebels in the largest city Aleppo after the prime minister fled the country, denouncing the “terrorist regime” of Bashar al-Assad. Riyad Hijab is More...
Annan arrives in Damascus, Syria tests missiles
Report by Oliver Holmes (Reuters) – Kofi Annan is due to hold talks on Monday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who said U.S. political support for “terrorists” was hindering the peace envoy’s More...
Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet
Report by Jonathon Burch and Erika Solomon (Reuters) – Turkey and Syria said their navies were jointly searching on Saturday for Turkish airmen shot down by Syria over the Mediterranean, while nearby Turkish More...
How the New Revolutions May Have Failed
Column Stephen Suleyman Schwartz At mid-June, the wave of democratic revolutions in “pre-emerging” countries – those that have not yet reached the status of “emerging economies” – had seemingly come More...
