Tag: Syria

Syrian regime forces shelled the northwestern town of Al-Haffe for an eighth day on Tuesday, sparking fears of an impending massacre and UN demands...

Helicopter gunships on Monday fired on rebel positions in central and northwestern Syria in a bid to snuff out the gunmen as violence killed...

Violence in Syria killed at least 29 people on Sunday, bringing the death toll since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s...

Russia will not approve the use of force against the Syrian regime at the United Nations, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday at a...

The Syrian army killed at least 23 civilians in two protest cities on Saturday, a watchdog said, as an international outcry mounted over a...

The Syrian army killed at least 17 civilians, including nine women and three children, in the flashpoint southern town of Daraa early on Saturday,...

Russia said Friday after high-stakes talks with the US pointman on Syria that it did not know if President Bashar al-Assad intended to leave...

Envoy Kofi Annan told the Security Council the Syria crisis will "spiral out of control" if more pressure is not put on the regime,...

Pro-regime militiamen armed with guns and knives swept through a village in central Syria slaughtering dozens including women and children, a watchdog said Thursday...

China and Russia said Wednesday they were “decisively against” intervention or regime change in Syria as Arab and Western calls mounted for tougher international...

Syrian government troops fought deadly battles with armed rebels as the European Union on Monday urged Russia to overcome differences over Syria to end...

President Bashar al-Assad dismissed on Sunday accusations his government had any role in the brutal Houla massacre, as he charged forces outside Syria of...

Arab leaders called for UN action on Saturday as at least 27 people were killed in Syria amid growing global concern that Kofi Annan’s...

Clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Lebanon’s northern port city of Tripoli on Saturday, killing nine people...

The United States Thursday lashed Moscow for arming the Syrian government and warned of the threat of civil war, as it stepped up diplomatic...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday criticised Russia’s resistance to UN action on Syria, warning that its policy of propping up the...

Russia said on Wednesday it was premature to take new UN action on Syria after the massacre of 108 civilians in Houla and said...