- 11 Apr 2012 10:27 - Staff Reporter
- UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has urged an end to violence in Syria, amid claims 1 000 people have been killed in the past week.
- 10 Apr 2012 11:20 - Staff Reporter
- As Syria emarks on a new peace plan, news has emerged that its forces summarily executed over 100 civilians and rebel fighters in the past few months.
- 10 Apr 2012 09:17 - Staff Reporter
- Syrian forces have fired into Turkey, hitting a refugee camp amid mounting international concern hours before a UN deadline to end the crisis.
- 09 Apr 2012 20:01 - Staff Reporter
- Continued military bombardments in central Syria is dashing the prospects of a UN-brokered ceasefire taking hold.
- 08 Apr 2012 07:44 - Karin Laub
- The US has warned Syria it won't be able to deceive the world about compliance with a cease-fire that is just days away, as the violence continues.
- 07 Apr 2012 12:10 - Staff Reporter
- Syrian armed forces killed at least 31 people on Saturday, mostly civilians and all but four of them in an assault on the town of Latamna.
- 06 Apr 2012 08:03 - Staff Reporter
- Saudi Arabia and Qatar are being urged not to supply weapons to Syrian rebels for fear of hampering efforts to negotiate an end to the crisis.
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- 05 Apr 2012 16:11 - Erika Solomon
- Syria has told Arab League envoy Kofi Annan that it has begun pulling troops in line with a peace plan accepted by President Bashar al-Assad.
- 04 Apr 2012 19:28 - Dominic Evans
- Syrian activists have accused forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad of bombarding rebel areas as a UN mission is expected to arrive in Damascus.
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- 03 Apr 2012 17:59 - Staff Reporter
- Activists accuse Syrian troops of shelling two cities in an effort to weaken forces fighting Bashar al-Assad's government before a ceasefire deadline.
- 02 Apr 2012 16:44 - Staff Reporter
- At least 18 people have been killed on Monday as Syrian forces pressed their crackdown on dissent, pounding rebel bastions in the restive north.
- 01 Apr 2012 13:23 - Staff Reporter
- Syrian violence has killed at least 16 people, including eight soldiers who died during ambushes and battles in the east, north west and Damascus.
- 30 Mar 2012 13:07 - Deborah Pasmantier
- An icon of Syria's revolution is furious that her country's peaceful protest movement has been drawn into armed conflict with the regime.
- 30 Mar 2012 08:48 - Staff Reporter
- Syria President Bashar al-Assad has promised to try to implement a UN-backed peace plan but demands that opposition groups pledge to end violence.
- 29 Mar 2012 09:20 - Hamza Hendawi
- Arab leaders will call for Syria to implement a ceasefire, but there's little faith that President Bashar al-Assad will halt his crackdown.
- 28 Mar 2012 14:33 - Antonio Pampliega
- For ordinary Syrians cornered by the regime's brutal crackdown, an escape across the border into Turkey is their only chance of survival.
- 28 Mar 2012 11:42 - Hamza Hendawi
- For leaders who seek military intervention in Syria, Baghdad provides a cautionary tale, with violence and sectarian hate persisting a decade later.
- 28 Mar 2012 11:06 - Staff Reporter
- The uprising in Syria is swiftly transforming into a civil war that could lay waste to the country and the fallout is bleeding outside its borders.
- 28 Mar 2012 10:15 - Staff Reporter
- Syria's acceptance of a plan to end that country's bloody crisis has sparked sceptical responses and concern that Bashar al-Assad is buying time.
- 27 Mar 2012 14:11 - Staff Reporter
- Syria has accepted a ceasefire and peace plan drawn up by Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan as Syrian troops thrust into Lebanon to battle rebels.
