AMMAN: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Wednesday that arming rebels was a real option if President Bashar Assad did not engage in peace talks, but the logistics of doing so remained elusive.

 

Kerry is in Amman for the “Friends of Syria” meeting seeking support from European and Arab states for a peace initiative that he launched jointly with Russia for a conference in Geneva in the coming weeks.

 

Speaking alongside his Jordanian...

BEIRUT: Caretaker Minister of State Nicolas Fattoush presented Parliament with a draft law Wednesday to extend the legislature’s term, as rival parties negotiated the duration of the extension.

 

Fattoush requested that Parliament’s term be extended for two years, until June 20, 2015. According to Zahle MP Fattoush’s proposal, the extension of Parliament’s mandate is justified in order to avoid a political vacuum in the country, given that a caretaker government is...

By Cherine Chams El-Dine 

Student union elections in Egyptian universities have concluded in all governorates. This has created a 50-member national student union – a president and vice president from each of 22 public universities, two representatives from Al-Azhar University, and four representatives from private colleges and higher institutes – but one that still lacks a union president, vice president and executive bureau. Although the current student body...