Tag: Syria

Republican US presidential candidates have redoubled their public calls for "covert" operations against Iran and Syria, including sabotage, assassination and aid to opposition forces. Former...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies he is responsible for the killing of thousands of protesters, telling a US reporter he was not in charge...

Syria said on Monday it will allow observers into the country as part of an Arab League plan to end months of deadly unrest,...

Syria faced new sanctions after flouting Sunday an Arab League deadline to accept observers to monitor the unrest sweeping the country, which the UN...

Royal Dutch Shell said on Friday it would cease operations in Syria to heed new European Union sanctions against Damascus, deepening the international isolation...

The European Union tightened sanctions against Syria’s energy and financial sectors on Thursday in order to punish President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for its crackdown...

A volley of rockets fired from Lebanon slammed into Israel on Tuesday, prompting the Israeli military to return fire and raising new tensions in...

Russia on Tuesday urged an end to "ultimatums" against its Middle East ally Syria following the approval of Arab League sanctions and a call...

An Arab League task force agreed upon sanctions against Damascus in a meeting in Cairo on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime pressed...

Syrian forces killed at least 11 civilians on Sunday, six of them in the flashpoint region of Homs under siege for several weeks in...

Arab foreign ministers gathered in Cairo Sunday to vote on a list of sanctions against Syria, designed to contain President Bashar al-Assad's regime and...

Syria has reached a “point of no return” as the regime steps up violence against pro-democracy demonstrators, Turkish President Abdullah Gul warned on Wednesday....

The death toll from a fresh surge of violence in Syrian flashpoints has risen to 33, rights activists said Wednesday, adding that among the...

President Bashar al-Assad said Syria would not bow down in the face of international military action over his lethal crackdown on dissent, in an...

Everybody wants a piece of the power pie The wave of public protests that has gripped Syria was bound to happen some day because there...

Three people were killed in a crackdown on dissent against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday, activists said, despite a deadline by...

Syrian security forces shot dead at least two people as they opened fire to disperse protesters urging countries to expel Syria's ambassadors on Friday,...