Tag: Syria

Syria’s brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protests took a chilling turn on Monday with the discovery of a mass grave in Daraa, the town at...

At least 15 Syrian tanks pushed overnight into a rural area near the Lebanese border, where security forces have concentrated their latest crackdown against...

The deadly unrest in Syria spilled over into Lebanon where a woman was killed at a border crossing as protests against President Bashar al-Assad's...

Syrian troops killed three people and wounded several others on Saturday in the border town of Tall Kalakh, a witness said, as the toll...

Thousands of Syrians demonstrated after weekly prayers on Friday, activists and witnesses said, keeping up a two-month-old campaign of calls to end autocratic rule,...

Syrian security forces on Thursday kept crushing dissent town-by-town and rounding up opposition leaders, activists said, in an unrelenting crackdown that Washington has slammed...

Army tanks shelled a residential district in Homs on Wednesday, a rights campaigner said in Syria's third city which has emerged as the most...

Syrian tanks stormed the flashpoint city of Banias Saturday, rights activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad ignored growing world outrage to press a violent...

Hundreds of Syrians have been charged with "maligning the prestige of the state", a Syrian rights group said, in President Bashar al-Assad's drive to...

Syrian security forces shot dead at least 48 people when tens of thousands of protesters rallied for a "day of rage" after Friday prayers,...

Syrian troops tightened their grip on Daraa Wednesday as the global community raised alarm over the military assault on the restive town which according...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday it had collected the names of at least 453 civilians killed during almost six weeks...

Syria sent more troops to the southern town of Daraa where a deadly crackdown against pro-democracy protesters raged into a second day Tuesday, activists...

Thousands of Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed the flashpoint town of Daraa on Monday killing at least 25 people, witnesses said, as a...

DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities arrested an opposition figure in the restive city of Homs, an activist said Wednesday as rights groups derided the government's move to end decades of draconian emergency rule.
Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Mahmud Issa was taken into custody in Homs Tuesday, hours after the cabinet approved a bill to rescind the state of emergency. The bill will now go before parliament, which is not due to meet until after May 2.

DAMASCUS - Syria imposed on Tuesday a total ban on all demonstrations after warning of a crackdown on an "armed revolt" by Islamist radicals and as four people died when security forces fired on protesters in the city of Homs. Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar told people "to refrain from taking part in all marches, demonstrations or sit-ins under any banner whatsoever", state news agency SANA reported. He warned that if demonstrations were held, "the laws in force in Syria

AMMAN - Thousands of Syrians chanted slogans calling for greater freedom at independence day rallies on Sunday, witnesses said, a day after President Bashar al-Assad promised to lift emergency law.
"The people want freedom," several hundred people shouted at the grave of independence leader Ibrahim Hananu in Syria's second city Aleppo, which has been mostly free of pro-democracy protests that erupted more than a month ago in the south. Hundreds also turned out in the southern