Tag: Syria

Syria has denounced international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi as “flagrantly biased”, casting doubt on how long the UN-Arab League mediator can pursue his peace mission....

A defiant President Bashar al-Assad presented what he described as a new initiative on Sunday to end the war in Syria but his opponents...

Syrian government forces have bombarded several rebel strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus to quell the fighters battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad...

A Syrian warplane has destroyed a petrol station near Damascus, killing and wounding dozens of people and igniting a huge fire in what could...

More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime erupted in March 2011, a top UN...

Fierce fighting has resumed between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and opposition fighters after rebels attacked regime troops stationed around an airbase in northwestern Syria,...

Syria has blamed rebels for blowing up a natural gas pipeline Tuesday in the country's oil-rich east, disrupting distribution. A statement carried by Syria's state...

Lakhdar Brahimi, the international envoy to Syria, has warned that as many as 100,000 could die in the country in the next year if...

Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for an “end to the bloodshed” in conflict-wracked Syria in a traditional Christmas message that touched on several...

Tens of thousands of people have staged protests in western Iraq, blocking a highway leading to Syria and Jordan, against what they have termed...

More than 60 people were killed in a regime airstrike on a bakery in a rebel-held town on Sunday, monitors said, as peace envoy...

International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was to head to Syria on Sunday and expected to meet President Bashar al-Assad a day later, airport sources...

Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Syrian government forces are continuing to fire short-range ballistic missiles at rebel fighters. A Nato source told...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said that there is no prospect of an end to the 21-month conflict in Syria. Ban told a...

Syria on Monday hit back at the United Nations over the fate of Palestinian refugees after UN chief Ban Ki-moon voiced “grave concern” following...

Russia has denied that its deputy foreign minister said that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was losing control of his country. The Russian foreign ministry...

Collapse of Syrian regime appears inevitable and defeat could be near for Syria's embattled regime, the head of NATO has said. NATO Secretary-General Anders...