A refugee family is producing traditional Syrian Pita bread and pastries for the South African market.
Syria’s governement says a presidential election will take place on June 3, but Western leaders say the vote is a "parody of democracy".
Government forces may have carried out the Damascus chemical attack without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, says a report.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has laid the groundwork for potential military action against the Syrian government over a chemical weapons attack.
An apparent gas attack in Damascus is thought to be the most significant use of chemical weapons since the gassing of Kurds 25 years ago.
Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in a fierce army bombardment of areas near Damascus, a Syrian NGO has said.
A car bomb has killed 53 people and wounded 200 in central Damascus when it blew up on a busy highway close to ruling Baath Party offices.
A car bomb shook the centre of Damascus, killing several people and incinerating cars on a busy highway close to offices of the ruling Baath party.
Tens of thousands have protested across Syria as a suicide bombing rocked the capital, killing 11 people fuelling scepticism over a UN peace plan.
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s opponents appear to be resorting to assassinations of loyalist military officers in an escalation of their campaign.
Arab leaders will call for Syria to implement a ceasefire, but there’s little faith that President Bashar al-Assad will halt his crackdown.
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.
State television in Syria has reported gruesome images from twin bomb attacks on security buildings in the countries capital.
Just 30 kilometres from Damascus a village holds onto a fragile liberty, writes <b>Ian Black</b>.
Damascus has been hit by a suicide bomb, killing 25 and wounding dozens, with state media blaming ‘terrorists’ for the second such attack.
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/ 24 December 2011
Arab League monitors are to meet Syria’s top diplomat on Saturday, a day after suicide bombers killed 44 people in attacks Damascus blamed on Al-Qaeda
Suicide bombers hit two security service bases in Damascus on Friday killing 30 people and wounding 55 others, state television reported.
Activists have called for a general strike to increase pressure on Syria’s president’s regime as fears grow of an ‘invasion’ of protest hub, Homs.
Syria has called for an emergency summit of Arab League heads of state in an apparent attempt to thwart its decision to suspend Damascus.
A group of Russian lawmakers are trying to broker an end to violence in Syria, as security forces were reported to have killed two more people.
Syrian forces have killed at least two more people ahead of anti-regime protests being held under the banner "death before humiliation".
President Al-Assad has ordered a general amnesty, offering a "national dialogue" to end Syria’s unrest, even as five people were killed in protests.
Syrian forces have cracked down on dissent hubs across the country, sealing off areas and arresting leaders of the rebellion against the Assad regime.
Thousands of troops backed by tanks stormed Dara’a, killing at least 25, as rights activists slammed Damascus for using the army to crush dissent.
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/ 24 February 2009
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Syria to abolish its repressive security court, a ”kangaroo court” whose verdicts cannot be appealed.
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/ 3 February 2009
Hawkish frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed he would smash Hamas if he becomes Israel’s prime minister after next week’s elections.
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/ 27 October 2008
Syria protested vehemently on Monday over what it said was a US attack on a border village that left eight civilians dead.
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/ 28 September 2008
Counter-terrorist officers in Syria on Sunday hunted for those behind a car bomb attack that killed 17 people in Damascus.
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/ 27 September 2008
A car bomb exploded in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday, killing 17 civilians and wounding 14, Syrian state television reported.
Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders but ”it will not recognise Israel”, the Islamist movement’s exiled chief Khaled Meshaal told a news conference on Monday. ”We accept a Palestinian state within the June 4 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital … but without recognition of Israel,” he said.
Former United States president Jimmy Carter met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Friday for talks expected to focus on ways to include the Islamist group in efforts to achieve Palestinian-Israeli peace. High-level Hamas members also attended the meeting, at which Carter would also raise with Meshaal the fate of an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas.
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/ 6 September 2007
Syria accused Israel on Thursday of bombing its territory and warned it could respond, but Israel Radio carried a denial there had been an air strike. The official Syrian news agency said there were no casualties or damage and that Syrian air defences fired on the incoming planes shortly after midnight.