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 ...

Syrian Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass walks with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, before a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at Davutoglu's residence in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, July 26, 2012.

Last Thursday afternoon in a Turkish hamlet not far from the town of Rehanliya on the Syrian border, two black four-wheel drive cars with tinted windows appeared amid the olive groves and red-soiled ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu received Syrian general Manaf Tlass who defected from Syrian army and joined the opponents. Davutoglu and Tlass met at Foreign Ministry residence in Ankara on ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...