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The article focuses on Israel's escalation of tensions with Iran through a bombing in Syria, highlighting the ongoing covert conflict between the two nations. Topics discussed include the regional dynamics of the Israel-Iran conflict, the implications of the attack for both countries, and potential retaliatory actions by Iran.

The article announces that France would recognize the new Syrian rebel coalition after the difficult negotiations in Doha, Qatar by the France President François Hollande. It says that the coalition goal was to build an opposition leadership from both inside and outside the country. According to Andrew J. Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute, the new coalition needs to create a secure zone in Syria in order to be successful, and that step needs support from the U.S..

The article reports on the political leadership issue of British Labour Politician Ed Miliband. It states that the leadership of Miliband has been questioned and will be discussed on his Labour Party's annual conference, which will start on September 21, 2013. Politics professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland mentions the unclear position of Miliband in the issue of military action of the country against Syria.

The article reports on airstrikes by British in Syria after the British Parliament authorized airstrikes in Syria against the militant group Islamic State, mentions deployment of Tornado jets from the Akrotiri Royal Air Force Base for it and comments from Prime Minister David Cameron, on same.

This article reports on the transfer of security in Lebanon from the Israeli army to peacekeeping forces, which includes troops from France, Italy and ships from Germany. Preventing weapons from being delivered to Hezbollah from Syria and Iran will be one of the objectives of the United Nations force. Israel and Hezbollah may also participate in a prisoner exchange, which would include the two Israeli soldiers captured in July.

The article reports on the increasing number of youths leaving Europe and the U.S. to Syria to wage jihad against President Bashar al-Assad prompting security concerns by Syrian officials.

The article reports that the French laboratory tests on body fluids taken from victims in Syria had confirmed the multiple use of sarin gas in the country.

The article reports on a caution from the foreign minister of France to countries supporting the Syrian opposition, asserting that the control of Syria could fall to militant Islamist groups except when they honored their pledges of aid.

The article focuses on the assessment of Russia on the political and military decline of the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It says that Russia has recognized that al-Assad was losing the battle against the coordinated insurgency in the area and is preparing for contingency plans to evacuate its citizens from the country. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), believes that the Syrian regime is approaching a collapse.

The article focuses on the financial troubles faced by Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyah (Hamas) due to its ambition to expand military forces and revolt in Syria. It states that the decision of Hamas to shut its political bureau in Damascus resulted to cut in the financial distribution from Syria and Iran. It mentions that Hamas also needed money for the uniforms and rifles and other equipment for its armed wing, Qassam Brigade.

The article reports that French President François Hollande met with his leaders in Paris on November 16, 2012 after recognizing the newly former Syrian opposition council as the representative of Syrian people and agreed on the installment of Syrian ambassador in France. Sheik Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib says that the government would raise issue of lifting a European Union arms embargo against Syrian forces. It adds that Hollande already proving nonlethal assistance to liberated zones in Syria.

PARIS -- International sanctions aimed at the Syrian government have cut its financial reserves in half, and pressure must be maintained on Damascus to stop its bloody crackdown on opponents despite a shaky five-day cease-fire, the French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, said on Tuesday. The financial pressure, including an oil embargo and sanctions on the Central Bank, is damaging Syria's ability ''to finance and arm militias, the lethal shabiha death squads,'' Mr. Juppe said, and is hurting those around what he called ''the ruling clan'' of President Bashar al-Assad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- As many as 2,000 people fleeing the war in Syria were believed to be headed toward the Lebanese border on Sunday, a United Nations official said, signaling a growing humanitarian crisis in Syrian cities and villages as the government has pursued its opponents on new fronts. The official, Jean Paul Cavalieri, a representative with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees agency based in Lebanon, told Reuters that the agency had been warned by its teams in Syria and the local authorities to expect between 1,000 and 2,000 refugees. A local official in northern Lebanon said at least 12 families had crossed into the region in recent days. Turkish officials have also spoken of an increased flow of refugees, as teams of activists and smugglers have guided growing numbers of fleeing civilians toward several camps in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- More than a year after it began, the Arab awakening has had its seasons. After a world-shaking spring, then on through summer, autumn and winter, one country after another -- Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen -- has toppled autocrats, with varying amounts of blood. Some governments have stamped out revolts, like Bahrain. Others have tried modest reforms, like Morocco, or idled on the sidelines (think Algeria and Saudi Arabia). Now it is nearly spring again, and there is Syria. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- A French reporter wounded in the Syrian government's bombardment of Homs made a video appeal on Thursday for a cease-fire and evacuation for urgent medical attention. ''My leg is broken at the level of the femur, along its length and also horizontally,'' said the reporter, Edith Bouvier, in a video posted by antigovernment activists. ''I need to be operated upon as soon as possible.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- The leaders of Germany and France, meeting here on Monday, pledged not to allow Russia and China to block international action to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and promised to help the Syrian people. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France also called for Greece to come to terms quickly with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on cuts to its budget, or face default on its debts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DAMASCUS, Syria -- The secretary general of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and a Christian priest have been killed in violence that flared in parts of Syria on Wednesday, as Arab and Western nations continued their attempts to isolate Syria by trying to unseat it from two committees at a United Nations agency. The Red Crescent official, Dr. Abd-al-Razzaq Jbeiro, was shot and killed while traveling on the Halab-Damascus highway in a vehicle that was ''clearly marked with the Red Crescent emblem,'' according to a statement released by the International Committee of the Red Cross. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- At least 25 countries have joined to try to unseat Syria from two committees of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that deal with issues of human rights, Western diplomats and Unesco officials said Wednesday. The countries have put the issue on the agenda of the next meeting of the organization's Executive Board, from Feb. 27 to March 10, the diplomats said. They include Qatar, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Arab League; Kuwait; the United Arab Emirates; Djibouti; Chile; South Korea; Japan; the United States; and European countries including France, Britain, Germany and Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- European Union members escalated the pressure on Syria's government on Friday by banning all imports of Syrian oil in response to its violent suppression of the nearly six-month-old uprising there. It was the most punitive action by the European Union to date over the crackdown in Syria, which sells nearly all its oil to Europe and relies heavily on that export income. The new sanctions, which take effect on Saturday, came as antigovernment protesters in Syria demonstrated in a number of cities and towns -- including suburbs of Damascus -- despite a heavy presence of police officers and troops who, in some cases, outnumbered the protesters themselves. Activists and witnesses reported that 11 people were killed in the protests, which organizers called ''the Friday of 'death before humiliation.' '' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- The Syrian ambassador to France, Lamia Shakkour, denied resigning from her post early Wednesday morning and said that she had been the victim of disinformation intended to embarrass Syria. A woman identifying herself as the Syrian ambassador had announced her resignation by telephone on the French television news channel France 24 on Tuesday evening, citing her disgust at the government's crackdown against demonstrators in Syria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- A woman identifying herself as the Syrian ambassador to France announced her resignation by telephone on French television Tuesday evening, in what would be the first such defection from the government of President Bashar al-Assad in months of unrest. But Syrian state television and Al Arabiya television both followed by broadcasting telephone denials in Arabic from someone they identified as the ambassador, Lamia Shakkour, who said the France24 news channel had been taken in by an impostor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has announced plans to go to Syria next Wednesday to pursue restoring diplomatic ties and to seek the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, a French-Israeli soldier believed to be held by the Palestinian group Hamas, which is headquartered in Syria. Though the American government lists Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, France has moved to open talks with its president, Bashar al-Assad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leaders of 43 nations with nearly 800 million inhabitants inaugurated a ''Union for the Mediterranean'' on Sunday, meant to bring the northern and southern countries that ring the sea closer together through practical projects dealing with the environment, climate, transportation, immigration and policing. But the meeting was also an opportunity for President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to exercise some highly public Middle East diplomacy by bringing President Bashar al-Assad of Syria out of isolation for an Elysee Palace meeting and by playing host to a session between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Syria has confirmed that it will attend the Middle East peace meeting, to be held in the U.S., and attended by Saudi Arabia and the organization, Arab League's participants. A deputy foreign minister would be sent to attend the meeting from Syria. Syria is a supporter of groups opposed to a Palestinian peace with Israel. Syria, in return, was promised that Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights, taken away from it in the 1967 war, will be on the agenda of the meeting.

The article reports on the silence maintained by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli officials over an Israeli Air Force strike against Syria on September 6, 2007. The strike is stated to have occurred against a nuclear reactor of North Korean design, and though Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has admitted to it, he has denied North Korean involvement in a nuclear program. Rice stated that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process would not being affected by proliferation.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush is keeping mum over the Israeli airstrike in northern Syria on September 6, 2007. On September 20, 2007, Bush declined to discuss the issue. Israel has said that the airstrike was aimed at North Korea-assisted nuclear facility in Syria. Bush asked North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons programs and stop selling them or nuclear expertise abroad.

The article presents the author's views on why Israel should have peace talks with Syria. The author says that without the close coordination with Washington and the U.S., it will be impossible for Israel to negotiate with Syria as they consider Syria as the state-sponsor of terrorism. According to the author, a real peace treaty with Syria would be beneficial to Israel in Lebanon and Palestinian territories.

Reports that Syrian Information Minister Mahdi Dakhlallah has denied Israeli accusations that his country test-fired Scud missiles.

Reports on the scud missile tests conducted by Syria including a missile that broke up over Turkish territory, according to Israeli military officials.

Reports on the peace talks between Israel and Syria. Shift in Syrian mood as reflected in the government-controlled `The Syria Times' newspaper's editorial condemning the suicide bombing attacks in Israel; Issues to be tackled during the peace talks; Water; Security issues.

Reports on the progress in the Syrian-Israeli peace talks. Commitment to a comprehensive peace treaty; Compromise on security issues.

Reports on Syria's agreement to continue peace talks with Israel in Maryland on February 26, 1996. Concerns that early Israeli elections would slow or disrupt the negotiations; Concerns among Americans that Syrian President Hafez al-Assad might refuse to continue the talks.

States that with a renewed mandate and the help of ranking military experts, Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced that negotiations between Israel and Syria will resume. Scheduled date for resumption; Involvement of Syrian president Hafez al-Assad and Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres; Comments of Warren Christopher, Secretary of State.

Focuses on a possible peace agreement between Israeli and Syrian negotiators. Comments from Secretary of State Warren Christopher; Christopher to meet with Syrian President, Hafez Al-Assad and Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres; Appeal for help from United States by both countries.

Reports on the agreement among Israel, Syria and Lebanon to stop 16 days of rocketing and shelling in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. A written set of understandings; Deaths, property damage and other upheavals from the fighting; Purpose of the agreement to protect civilians. INSET: Restricting the violence in Lebanon (text of the understanding).

Informs that Israel, Syria and Lebanon are very close to agreeing on a cease-fire and a set of rules for military behavior. The negotiations relating to the shelling and rocketing in northern Israel and southern Lebanon; Officials' cautious statements regarding prospects for the negotiations.

Reports that Syrian President Hafez al-Assad abruptly canceled a meeting with United States Secretary of State Warren Christopher in April 1996. The American diplomat's flight to Damascus especially to meet him; Christopher's effort to get Syria's help in ending the fighting on the Lebanese-Israeli border; Assad's stated reason for cancelling; The sudden postponement appearing as an extraordinary snub; Christopher's previous efforts to court Assad; Analysis of the snub.

Reports that hopes are dwindling for a quick cease-fire in southern Lebanon and northern Israel. The fight between Israeli and Islamic guerrilla forces of Hezbollah, or Party of God; Problems in getting Israel and Syria to agree on terms; Efforts by American Secretary of State Warren Christopher to negotiate a peace.

Informs that United States Secretary of State Warren Christopher has met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, regarding the fighting in southern Lebanon. Christopher's attempt to get Syrian help in stopping the fighting between Israel and Muslim Hezbollah guerrillas there; Reason why Syrian intervention is crucial.

The article reports that Arab allies of the U.S. are reducing their participation in U.S. airstrikes against the terrorist group known as Islamic State, or ISIS, in Syria. According to the author, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates have shifted their military focus to combating the Houthi rebel forces in Yemen. Details on the engagement of Western allies such as France and Australia in the airstrikes are also presented. The Incirlik air base in Turkey is discussed.

The article reports on the statement of Russia President Vladimir V. Putin regarding on supplying the Syrian military with an advance air defense system as a response to the action of Israel in which Israel disregard the safety of the Russian military personnel.

The article discusses the support of the France President Emmanuel Macron of France and British Prime Minister Theresa May to the U.S. President Donald Trump over the launch of an airstrike in Syria.

The article discusses the issue surrounding the chemical weapons attack in Syria, which according to the U.S. and its allies' intelligence was ordered by the country's president Bashar al-Assad despite the differences in their estimates.

The article reports on the refusal of Germany, Austria and other European countries in supporting a French-British effort in lifting a weapons embargo to arm Syrian rebels.

LONDON -- A United Nations panel concluded Thursday that ''gross human rights violations'' had been ordered by the Syrian authorities as a matter of state policy, amounting to crimes against humanity. The panel of three investigators, led by Paulo Pinheiro, a Brazilian professor, said the orders had come from ''the highest levels of armed forces and the government,'' but did not release the names of the officials it had identified as bearing responsibility. Instead, the panel delivered the names in a sealed envelope to the United Nations' top human rights official. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CAIRO -- Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs on Wednesday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Among the scores of people that activist groups reported killed by rockets and bombs through the day, two were Western journalists, the veteran American war correspondent Marie Colvin, who had been working for The Sunday Times of London, and a young French photographer, Remi Ochlik. The two had been working in a makeshift media center that was destroyed in the assault, raising suspicions that Syrian security forces might have identified its location by tracing satellite signals. Experts say that such tracking is possible with sophisticated equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

UNITED NATIONS -- A United Nations Security Council effort to end the violence in Syria collapsed in acrimony with a double veto by Russia and China on Saturday, hours after the Syrian military attacked the city of Homs in what opposition leaders described as the deadliest government assault in the nearly 11-month uprising. The veto and the mounting violence underlined the dynamics shaping what is proving to be the Arab world's bloodiest revolt: diplomatic stalemate and failure as Syria plunges deeper into what many are already calling a civil war. Diplomats have lamented their lack of options in pressuring the Syrian government, and even some Syrian dissidents worry about what the growing confrontation will mean for a country reeling from bloodshed and hardship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]