Standing on the front lines in Aleppo you can’t just smell the gunpowder, you can smell the depression. It hangs…
The battle around Damascus has grown fierce as the regime strives to take back suburbs around the capital city that have fallen into rebel hands. It is a vital showdown in the political survival of President Bashar Assad’s regime.
President Bashar Al Assad gave a rare speech on Sunday, his first since June, igniting Facebook and Twitter discussions that provided a jolt to both his supporters and opponents.
As Britain looks to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014 it still cannot hand over the remaining prisoners to Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security due to a “real risk of serious mistreatment” in their custody.
Senior Pakistani militant leader Mullah Nazir has been killed by a US drone strike in the north-west tribal district of South Waziristan near the Afghanistan border, security officials say.