Tag: Syria
BRICS summit insists on dialogue for Syria, Iran
The world’s emerging powers on Thursday said dialogue was the only answer to crises in Syria and Iran at a summit aimed at bolstering...
Syria to reject any Arab League initiative to end crisis
Damascus will reject any initiative stemming from this week’s Arab League summit to end the year-long crisis in Syria, a foreign ministry spokesman said...
Syria protest hubs hit as envoy arrives in Russia
Syria’s army resumed heavy shelling of the protest hubs of Homs and Hama on Saturday, monitors reported, as international envoy Kofi Annan arrived in...
Russia, China join UN demand for Syria peace move
The UN Security Council demanded Wednesday that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan, even as government forces pounded rebel...
Security clamp in Damascus, UN aims to press Syria
Security was tightened in Damascus on Tuesday after a spate of deadly clashes, activists said, as the UN Security Council prepared to thrash out...
Syria situation ‘unacceptable and intolerable’: Ban
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that the situation in Syria has become unacceptable and called on the Security Council to unite on the...
Russia joins Syria truce calls as fighting rages
Russia has added its voice to growing calls for a humanitarian truce in Syria, a move hailed by the US after deadly clashes rocked...
Syrian army overruns Idlib, rebels flee: activist
The Syrian army has seized full control of Idlib following a four-day assault and rebel troops have fled, an activist in the northwest city...
Ex-diplomats, Nobel laureates urge UNSC action on Syria
Ex-diplomats and Nobel laureates urged the UN Security Council on Monday to stop the violence in Syria, warning “paralysing” splits in the international community...
47 bodies found after ‘massacre’ in Homs: Syria activists
The bodies of 47 women and children have been found in the Syrian city of Homs, where security forces have been fighting raging battles...
Clash over Syria looms at UN council
A new diplomatic clash over Syria is looming as foreign ministers from key UN Security Council nations meet on Monday.
British organizers of the event...
UN Council ministers set for Syria clash
The world powers are on course for a new diplomatic clash over Syria when foreign ministers from the main UN Security Council nations meet...
Armageddon
Madness comes without giving notice
Anyone who imagines that Israel can attack Iran and not unleash another world war must be mad. Pray pause and...
Syria activists fear new Baba Amr on Annan visit eve
Syrian activists voiced growing fears on Friday of a new assault like the one that devastated the Homs neighbourhood of Baba Amr, on the...
Annan urges Syria opposition to cooperate for solution
United Nations and Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, urged the Syrian opposition on Thursday to cooperate to resolve the conflict that...
Foreign jihadists fighting in Syria battlefields
Foreign Sunni jihadists are fighting alongside Syrian rebels who have taken on President Bashar al-Assad, but their numbers are hard to assess and almost...
Hundreds of Syrians flee to Lebanon: officials
More than 1,500 Syrians, mainly women and children, have crossed into Lebanon in recent days, fleeing the violence in the central flashpoint province of...
