Tag: Syria

At least 15 people died in violence across Syria on Sunday, activists and state media said, as the visiting Red Cross chief sought access...

Security forces killed two people in northwest Syria on Saturday as a punitive EU oil embargo came into effect, a day after anti-regime protests...

Syria on Friday faced fresh sanctions targeting its oil exports, as activists called fresh anti-regime protests under the banner of "death rather than humiliation." The...

Syrian forces raided houses in Hama on Thursday, residents said, hours after the city's attorney general declared on YouTube he had resigned in protest...

Syrian security forces killed six people and wounded dozens on Monday in raids in the northwest and around the capital, as tanks rumbled into...

Syrian troops backed by tanks and personnel carriers rumbled Monday into the village of Hit bordering Lebanon and heavy gunfire could be heard, a...

Thousands of Syrians flooded streets across the country in anti-regime protests on the last Friday of Ramadan, activists said, vowing to bring down the...

Dick Cheney said he urged then-president George W. Bush in June 2007 to bomb a suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria, the former vice...

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday ordered a probe into violations committed by the Syrian regime during its crackdown on popular protests. By 33...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned the West his nation would not tolerate any outside interference, saying that anti-government unrest sweeping the country had become...

President Bashar al-Assad will give an interview to Syrian television on Sunday, state media said, as a UN team arrived in Damascus to assess...

Tanks rumbled into the central city of Homs at dawn Saturday, a day after security forces killed at least 34 anti-regime protesters across Syria,...

Syrian forces killed at least 15 protesters as tens of thousands swarmed the streets after Friday prayers, activists said, a day after President Bashar...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China, Russia and India to step up pressure on Syria's Bashar al-Assad, as his forces killed another...

Syria's security forces shot dead a man and a woman as they pursued a crackdown on protest ahead of expected mass demonstrations after Ramadan...

Syrian forces killed at least 10 people Thursday, including seven as they stormed another two towns in pursuit of anti-regime protesters, defying Western calls...

Emerging powers India, Brazil and South Africa urged Syria's regime to show restraint and respect for human rights at a meeting in Damascus with...