He called the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat “the son of 60,000 whores”, charged Jordan with “Judaising” its citizens, accused Turkey of collaborating with “the enemies of the Arabs” and blamed the ...

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Syrian Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass walks with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, before a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at Davutoglu's residence in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, July 26, 2012.

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Syria’s most prominent military defector says the key to political transition there is to provide a “safety net” that convinces Alawites they won’t be massacred if they break with President Bashar ...

In his first interview with a western newspaper since leaving Syria, the country's biggest industrial tycoon has told the Daily Telegraph of how the ownership of his conglomerate of huge companies is ...

(CBS News) Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass is the highest-profile military officer to defect from Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, but he's not the first member of his wealthy and powerful family to ...

Last Thursday afternoon in a Turkish hamlet not far from the town of Rehanliya on the Syrian border, two black four-wheel drive cars with tinted windows appeared amid the olive groves and red-soiled ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's former defense minister, Mustafa Tlass, who was a close confidant of the late President Hafez al-Assad but left the country after the uprising started, died in Paris on ...

PARIS (AP) — Syria’s most prominent defector says he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country’s civil war and that he’s confident of the opposition’s ability to topple President Bashar ...

Logistics of Tlass escape are unclear but it clearly would not have been easy Antakya, Turkey: Last Thursday afternoon in a Turkish hamlet not far from the town of Rehanliya on the Syrian border, two ...