[caption id="attachment_73710" align="alignright" width="180"] A militant is seen clashing with Syrian government forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Syria's Aleppo on December 11, 2013.[/caption] The sudden invitation and uninvitation of Iran to the Geneva II peace talks, set to begin Wednesday in Montreaux, have stirred up quite a bit of acrimony ...

[caption id="attachment_73710" align="alignright" width="180"] A militant is seen clashing with Syrian government forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Syria's Aleppo on December 11, 2013.[/caption] The so-called Syrian National Council (SNC) says it will not take part in the upcoming peace negotiations in Switzerland. On Friday, SNC member ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian opposition groups will be able to form a united delegation for the Geneva 2 peace conference, a representative of the Syrian National Coalition and Syrian National Council, Abdulahad Astepho, said on Wednesday. The National Coalition already unites different groups with their own political programs and aims, he told RIA Novosti....

The Syrian deputy prime ministersays the Geneva conference on the issue of Syria is likely to be held late November. Today we are getting as close to the Geneva II as never before. After our talks in the Russian Foreign Ministry, we agreed on the dates of the conference, or at least on the presumed dates, Qadri Jamilsaid during a visit to the Russian ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A key group within the Syrian opposition National Coalition said Sunday it would not attend proposed peace talks in Geneva and would quit the Coalition if it participated. "The Syrian National Council, which is the biggest bloc in the Coalition, has taken the firm decision... not to go to Geneva," the Council's president George Sabra,...

TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) The so-called Syrian National Council (SNC) says it has received lethal aid from the United States to launch more attacks against the Syrian government. Khalid Saleh, the head of the SNC media office, said at a Friday press conference after a meeting of the groups members in Istanbul that Washington has decided to enhance assistance ...

(Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will hold an informal meeting with members of the opposition Syrian National Coalition this week, Britain's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday, but the chief rebel commander will not attend due to the situation insideSyria. The meeting will take place on Friday and include political and military representatives of the ...

The Turkey-based so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC), which fights for regime change in Syria, says it is going to receive weapons from Saudi Arabia. On Sunday, Ahmad Jarba, who was elected as the SNC head on Saturday in Istanbul, said he was expecting "advanced weapons" to reach the foreign-backed militants in Syria, Lebanese TV station al-...

The divided foreign-backed Syrian opposition has failed to elect a new leader during its latest meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Both top candidates -- Ahmad Jarba, a tribal figure linked with Saudi Arabia, and Mustafa al-Sabbagh, a businessman who is Qatar's point man, were not able to gain half of the 115 votes of the members of the so-called ...

Qatar's new emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, has stated that the emirate still supports Syria's main opposition group, the so-called Syrian National Council (SNC). In a meeting with SNC members in the Qatari capital Doha on Monday, Sheikh Tamim said the crisis in Syria would remain on top of Qatars foreign policy agenda as before....