Fewer than 20 of the 108 people killed in Syria’s Houla massacre died from artillery and tank fire, with most others shot in their homes, the UN says.
China has condemned the "cruel killings" of civilians in the Syrian town of Houla, while Kofi Annan’s efforts remain the most viable solution.
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan says his peace plan could be the last bid to avoid war in Syria, where a truce has failed to end months of bloodshed.
Syria has been accused of killing at least 95 civilians and destroying hundreds of houses in Idlib, in a last-minute dash before the ceasefire was called.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has urged Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime to protect the 300 ceasefire monitors due in Syria next week.
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.
As Syria embarks on a peace plan, news has emerged of state forces summarily executing civilians and rebels. The M&G has obtained footage of two witnesses.
Syrian forces have fired into Turkey, hitting a refugee camp amid mounting international concern hours before a UN deadline to end the crisis.
At least 18 people have been killed on Monday as Syrian forces pressed their crackdown on dissent, pounding rebel bastions in the restive north.
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.
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 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.
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.
Rights activists have reported the death of several Syrian soldiers after being ambushed by Syrian army defectors.
Syria has begun pre-emptively withdrawing ambassadors from Europe because it fears EU members will expel them.
Syrians have sought refuge in Lebanon after troops continued bombardments in Baba Amr, the opposition’s stronghold.
Human Rights Watch claim new satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts reveal that the bombardment of Homs in Syria has caused 700 deaths.
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.
Dissent mars the United Nations’s celebration of its responsibility to protect — an emerging norm.
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/ 9 February 2012
Armoured reinforcements poured into Homs as President Bashar al-Assad’s army attacked the city for a fourth day, worsening the humanitarian situation.
An Arab League observer has left Syria, saying it has turned the monitoring mission sent to check its compliance with a peace plan into a "farce".
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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
Syrian troops swept into Hama to break a strike by President Bashar al-Assad opponents, killing 10 people but facing resistance from armed insurgents.
The death toll in the crackdown on Syrian protesters has forced the UN’s top human rights official to call for world action to protect civilians.
Syrian security forces killed two mourners and wounded several others when they fired on the funeral of a murdered Kurdish opposition figure.
Palestinian refugees have fled a camp in the besieged Syrian city of Latakia after President Bashar al-Assad’s forces shelled the city.
The US called on countries to stop buying Syrian oil and gas to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
Europe and the US have embarked on a new bid to convince UN Security Council members, including SA, to condemn al-Assad’s deadly crackdown in Syria.
Thousands of Syrians have fled to escape the military campaign to crush anti-government protests, while all oil production in Syria has stopped.
Britain and France are planning to submit a resolution at the UN Security Council condemning the "repression" in Syria, UK PM David Cameron says.