Syrian ceasefire calls for UN observers
Efforts to build on a Syrian ceasefire are accelerating with plans to deploy UN observers being drawn up to keep up pressure on Bashar al-Assad.
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UN envoy Annan fights for Syrian peace plan
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.
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Refugee camp bears brunt of Syrian violence
Syrian forces have fired into Turkey, hitting a refugee camp amid mounting international concern hours before a UN deadline to end the crisis.
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Syrian peace plan greeted with scepticism
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.
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Rights group accuses opposition of torture in Syria
Human Rights Watch says armed opposition groups in Syria have kidnapped, tortured and executed supporters of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Ambush results in death of several Syrian soldiers
Rights activists have reported the death of several Syrian soldiers after being ambushed by Syrian army defectors.
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Dozens of bodies discovered in Syrian city
The bodies of 47 women and children have been found in the Syria's Homs, where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed rebels.
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Saving Syria
The Responsibility to Protect doctrine is in danger of being deemed useless as thousands of Syrian civilians continue to die at the state's hands.
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The day anger turned to violence
How peace-loving Syrians finally took up arms against the regime and fought back.
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New February deadline for Syrian Constitution
Syria will hold a referendum on a draft Constitution on February 26 that limits the presidency to two seven-year terms and allows multiple parties.
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