Manaf Tlass, a Syrian general who was the first defector within Assad’s inner circle, says, “It’s up to the Syrian people to achieve victory by themselves,” and that foreign military intervention ...

(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 ...

BEIRUT – Syria's most prominent defector said in an interview that aired Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war and that he is confident the opposition can ...

(AP) BEIRUT - Syria's most prominent defector has been touring regional powers to garner support for the uprising. But many in the opposition are deeply suspicious of the handsome former general, a ...

Flamboyant Syrian defector Manaf Tlass has been widely dismissed as a tainted figure too close to the Syrian regime. But experts claim that he appeals to Syria's middle and upper classes, who have not ...

Until a few weeks ago, although he had the rank of brigadier general in the Syrian army, 48-year-old Manaf Tlass was better known as an aging member of the jeunesse dorée in Damascus: the playboy son ...

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 ...

A Syrian general who was a leading member of Bashar al-Assad's inner circle, Manaf Tlass, has defected to Turkey, according to a Damascus-based website with close links to the regime. Tlass is a ...

SYRIAN general Manaf Tlass has called on Syrians to unite and start building a post-President Bashar al-Assad Syria. Reading a prepared statement on the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya television channel, ...

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 ...

Hezbollah was behind the execution of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and the assassination was a “shared Syrian-Iranian decision,” Syrian opposition figure Firas Tlass told Al Arabiya.

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