Assad: Arab world ready to join fight against Israel
Syrian President Bashar Assad told Al-Manar TV on Thursday that “there is pressure by the people to open a new front on the Golan.” “Even among the Arab world there is a clear readiness to join the fight against Israel,” he added in his interview with the Hezbollah TV station.

Syria’s Assad warns Israel on air strikes and Golan
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has warned Israel that it will respond in kind to any future air strikes. In an interview with a Lebanese TV channel, he said there was “popular pressure” to open a military front against Israel in the Golan Heights. He also suggested Syria may have received the first shipment of an advanced Russian air defence system. 

Syria’s Bashar Assad says a peace pact would face a referendum
Any agreement reached at prospective peace talks on Syria would have to be approved by the Syrian people in a nationwide referendum, President Bashar Assad said in a television interview aired Thursday. 

Israel threatens to bomb Russian arms shipment to Syria
Following Israel’s last air strike against a suspect chemical weapons storehouse at Damascus airport, Arab media reported that Syria had aimed the bulk of its considerable long-range missile arsenal at the Jewish state.