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.
Arab leaders will call for Syria to implement a ceasefire, but there’s little faith that President Bashar al-Assad will halt his crackdown.
For ordinary Syrians cornered by the regime’s brutal crackdown, an escape across the border into Turkey is their only chance of survival.
For leaders who seek military intervention in Syria, Baghdad provides a cautionary tale, with violence and sectarian hate persisting a decade later.
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.
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.
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.
Arab leaders will offer plans to break the political ‘stalemate’ engulfing Syria but they will not demand the resignation of President Bashar Assad.
Syrian forces sent shells crashing into a rebel Homs neighbourhood for a seventh straight day, hours after Russia warned Damascus to avoid civil war.
Kofi Annan was in Moscow on Sunday for talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, which has crucial influence over efforts to end violence in Syria.
The EU has slapped sanctions on the wife and other close relatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, freezing their assets and grounding them.
South Africa has condemned the escalating violence in Syria and has urged all parties involved to seek a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict.
Human Rights Watch says armed opposition groups in Syria have kidnapped, tortured and executed supporters of President Bashar al-Assad.
Rebels are fighting security forces in Damascus in the most violent gun battles the Syrian capital has seen since the start of the year-long uprising.
Syria has been hit by the weekend’s third car bomb as UN teams ready for a government-led humanitarian mission and to work on an observer operation.
Two explosions struck the heart of Damascus on Saturday, killing at least 27 people in an attack on security installations.
State television in Syria has reported gruesome images from twin bomb attacks on security buildings in the countries capital.
A cache of emails to and from Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad reveals that he took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad — whose forces are in the midst of a bloody crackdown on dissidents — has called parliamentary elections for May.
Rights activists have reported the death of several Syrian soldiers after being ambushed by Syrian army defectors.
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.
Former UN chief Kofi Annan held blunt talks with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad this weekend but appeared to be making little headway.
Syria has begun pre-emptively withdrawing ambassadors from Europe because it fears EU members will expel them.
As the UN’s representative to Syria, Kofi Annan has urged Bashar al-Assad and his foes to seek a political solution, drawing anger from dissidents.
Syrians have sought refuge in Lebanon after troops continued bombardments in Baba Amr, the opposition’s stronghold.
Ahead of Kofi Annan’s visit to Syria for the UN and Arab League, President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have spread across Dera’a after overnight clashes.
Syrian forces renewed their bombardment of parts of Homs and for a second day blocked Red Cross aid meant for civilians.
Human Rights Watch claim new satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts reveal that the bombardment of Homs in Syria has caused 700 deaths.
Syria’s Al-Assad is arguably a war criminal, the US’s Hillary Clinton admitted, as the UN said his forces had killed more than 7 500 civilians.
Syrian forces shelled an opposition stronghold in Hama, killing 20 people, as two injured foreign journalists trapped in the city escaped to Lebanon.
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/ 26 February 2012
American war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee an army bombardment in Homs, Syria.
Over 30 Syrian civilians have been killed in fighting as a new constitution is set to see Bashar al-Assad rule until 2028.