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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CBS/AP) The defection of a member of the Syrian president's inner circle has dealt a blow to Bashar Assad just as the United States and its European partners are threatening new sanctions and the ...

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.

Syrian general Manaf Tlass (pictured), who defected from the regime on July 6, called Tuesday for Syrians to unite in building "a new Syria" in preparation for the possible fall of President Bashar al ...

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 ...

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