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A monitoring group has claimed that militants kidnapped at least 400 civilians when they attacked the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor.
The US has demanded that Syria allow aid in to Homs, as peace talks over the future of President Bashar al-Assad continue.
The funeral of an assassinated Lebanese intelligence chief ended in violence as mourners broke away and tried to storm the prime minister’s offices.
Syrians have voted in elections touted by authorities as a political milestone but dismissed by opposition as a facade as people are killed daily.
As the monitors head out of Syria, the Arab League has called on the United Nations to support a plan to end President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
Syrian security forces have killed more protesters as hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
A Sudanese general has flown to Damascus to head an Arab League mission to check Syria’s compliance with a peace plan to halt a crackdown on unrest.
Syrian forces killed at least eight people when they opened fire to disperse protests against President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned the West his nation would not tolerate any interference, saying that unrest had become more militant.
Syrian forces killed at least 63 civilians in attacks to crush pro-democracy demonstrations on Friday, the human rights organisation Sawasiah said.
Hundreds of angry protesters burned tyres and blocked roads across Lebanon on Tuesday after Najib Mikati was named Lebanon’s prime minister.
Lebanon faces a political impasse after Hezbollah and its allies toppled the government over a United Nations-backed tribunal.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s biggest opposition group, will not attempt to challenge the ruling party in the 2011 presidential election.
Suspected al-Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi’ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that…
Gunmen attacked the home of a police chief north of Baghdad on Friday, killing 14 people including his wife and brothers, and kidnapping his four children, police sources said.…
Thousands of American troops searched on Sunday for three US soldiers missing in Iraq after an ambush in which al-Qaeda said it seized ”crusader” forces. The self-styled Islamic…
Iraq signalled that world powers and neighbouring states, including Washington and its adversaries Iran and Syria, had agreed in Baghdad it was in everyone’s interest to stop…
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq’s military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a United States-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks…
Bombs killed at least 28 people in Baghdad on Thursday, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed his new crackdown in Baghdad would leave militants nowhere to hide. In a…
United States forces suffered one of their costliest days in Iraq on Saturday when 19 troops were killed, including 12 on a helicopter and five in a clash in a Shi’ite holy city…
