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Mail and Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Syria was hit by the third lethal car bombing of the weekend on Sunday as UN teams readied for a government-led humanitarian mission and to work to launch a monitoring operation to end a year of bloodshed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in...
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MarketWatch
| over 1 year ago
Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the start of Syria's uprising against its leadership, and the opposition is calling for demonstrations in Damascus and elsewhere to reinforce its call for President Bashar Assad to step down, weekend media...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below A Syrian rebel, wielding an AK-47 assault rifle, runs towards a Syrian army checkpoint in Damascus. Suicide bombers also attacked Syrian secret police buildings. Photo: AP The explosions hit the aviation intelligence department...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Syria said Sunday that two deadly bomb blasts in Damascus were aimed at sabotaging peace efforts, as U.N. experts prepared to join a government-led humanitarian mission to devastated protest hubs. "Yesterday's explosions were carried out by...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
Suicide bombers attacked two secret police headquarters in Damascus yesterday (Saturday), killing 27 people and leaving nearly 100 wounded, according to Syrian government sources. The bombings appeared to mark a dangerous escalation in Syria's crisis,...
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The Herald
| over 1 year ago
It caused destruction in a 100-yard radius, shattering windows, blowing doors off their hinges and throwing chairs and other furniture off balconies...Shooting broke out soon after the blasts and sent residents and others who had gathered in the area...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Twin bomb blasts killed 27 people and wounded almost 100 others in central Damascus on Saturday, state media said, as Saudi Arabia sent military equipment to the rebels fighting President Bashar al Assad's regime. The early-morning "terrorist"...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Damascus, Syria Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Al-qsoor near Homs, Syria, March 16, 2012. Syrians are marking the first anniversary of the unrest that has wracked the country since mid-March,...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Russia on Saturday said Syrian peace envoy Kofi Annan was not seeking President Assad's ouster but a solution to the year-long conflict that suited both the opposition and the regime. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he spoke to Annan shortly...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Saturday called for "more intense international intervention" in Syria and "more decisive Israeli condemnation" of the continuing "massacre" being perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country...Related:...
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Tulsa World
| over 1 year ago
Lebanon Twin bombings struck government targets in the Syrian capital early Saturday, killing security forces and civilians and leaving pools of blood and carnage in the streets, according to state-run television. A Syrian official said there were...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
One explosion targeted the aviation intelligence department in Damascus. Photograph: Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters Two large explosions have struck security targets in the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing a number of civilians and security forces, the...
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Arab News
| over 1 year ago
Two large explosions hit Damascus on Saturday, killing several security force personnel and civilians, state television reported, blaming what it said were terrorists behind the year-long uprising against President Bashar Assad. Video from a blast at...
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Al Jazeera English
| over 1 year ago
50 Two explosions have been heard in the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to state television. "Two terrorist bombings struck Damascus this morning," state television said on Saturday, adding that preliminary reports suggested the bombers had...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan Friday warned the situation in Syria threatened to destabilize the entire region, after receiving a disappointing response from President Bashar Assad on proposals to end the bloodshed and allow in humanitarian aid.
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China News
| over 1 year ago
Chinese ambassador to the UN Li Baodong said here Friday that China supports Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan's mediation efforts concerning the Syrian crisis, calling upon the international community to support Annan's efforts and create conditions...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
AP Turkey has hinted it might establish a haven for refugees fleeing the relentless violence in neighbouring Syria , which was described on Friday by the UN's envoy to Damascus as "very dangerous and threatening" to the region. Kofi Annan announced...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Syria deadlock; Annan says situation needs to be handled "very, very carefully to avoid escalation." Kofi Annan, joint special envoy on Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, said on Friday the situation in the country needed to be handled...
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Arab News
| over 1 year ago
Turkey said on Friday it might set up a buffer zone inside Syria to protect refugees fleeing President Bashar Assad's forces, raising the prospect of foreign intervention in the year-long revolt. With the uprising entering its second year, UN-Arab...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Special envoy Kofi Annan said Friday he was disappointed by President Bashar al-Assad's response to ideas for ending the bloodshed in Syria, and appealed to the UN to unite in its bid to halt the conflict. "The stronger and more unified your message,...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the Security Council Friday it must end divisions as it bids to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to halt a bloody crackdown on protests, diplomats said. "The stronger and more unified your message, the...
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Kuwait Times
| over 1 year ago
Anti-regime protesters called yesterday for foreign military intervention in Syria, as UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan prepared to brief a divided UN Security Council on his peace efforts. Ahead of UN participation in a Syrian-led humanitarian...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
In the Middle East, some papers applaud the opposition fighters for withstanding government attempts to suppress them for so long. Others are surprised at how the conflict is developing into a long-term struggle that diplomacy cannot influence. One...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 16, 2012. Russia said Friday it has encouraged the Syrian government to cooperate with Kofi Annan, the envoy charged with trying to help end the violence there, and urged the...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
A Syrian refugee holds a portrait of Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reading "Power to the Nation" during a demonsration against the Syrian president at the Reyhanli refugee Camp in Antakya, on March 15, 2012. Turkey said on Friday it...
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Al Jazeera English
| over 1 year ago
52 Syria's opposition has called for fresh protests to press for foreign military intervention in the country even as UN special envoy Kofi Annan prepared to brief the Security Council on his efforts to bring both sides to the negotiating table.
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Bashar Assad's father-in-law counseled the Syrian leader during his brutal crackdown, including how to rebut video of apparent child torture, e-mails indicate. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi , an e-mail obtained by the British newspaper The Guardian...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
In this March 10, 2012 file photo, a family escapes from fierce fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government troops in Idlib, north Syria. Syrian forces pressed their military offensive in the northern province of Idlib, driving 1,000...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below Free Syrian Army rebel fighters near Idlib. Their ranks have been boosted by thousands of army deserters. Photo: AP Despite the growing chorus of international condemnation, the regime of president Bashar al-Assad has pressed on...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 1 year ago
One year into Syria's popular uprising, the brutal tactics of President Bashar al-Assad appear to be succeeding. The armed opposition forces have been routed from the central Syrian city of Homs and, most recently, from Idlib in the northwest near...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
The UN has said it will send a humanitarian mission to Syria this weekend to assess the situation there. Its team will be part of a delegation led by the Syrian government, which will also include staff from the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation.
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Agencies Turkey's Foreign Ministry said 1,000 Syrian refugees entered the country in just 24 hours. Huge rallies played up support for Syria's President Bashar Assad Thursday on the 1-year anniversary of the start of protests against his rule, as...
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The Independent
| over 1 year ago
In a disused tin-plate factory in a backstreet of Digbeth in Birmingham, an extraordinary thing is h... Still bitter was the phrase used by kicker to describe the latest diplomatic furore surrounding ... Suggested Topics After more than 8,000...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
International officials are set to join Syrian officials this weekend to inspect humanitarian conditions across that nation, a U.N. official said Thursday. The mission comes as the Syrian insurgency enters its second year, rebels try to oust...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
As government supporters rallied on the anniversary of the Syrian uprising, President Bashar al-Assad claimed a leak of emails from his personal account were a hoax. Photograph: Hazim/Xinhua Press/Corbis Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has claimed...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Bahrain has decided to shut down its embassy in Damascus and to withdraw all diplomats and staff because of worsening security conditions there, the foreign ministry said on Thursday in a statement quoted by state news agency BNA. The foreign...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Hundreds of activists in a "Freedom Convoy" who tried to enter Syria from Turkey were stopped near the border on Thursday, as the uprising against the Damascus regime entered its second year. Turkish police stopped hundreds of mostly Syrian activists...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Marked with more Bloodshed The first anniversary of the Syrian uprising has been marked by more bloodshed. As thousands of pro-Assad supporters took to the streets in Damascus in support of their embattled president, activists said Syrian troops had...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
It is a year since President Bashar al-Assad's men responded to peaceful demonstrations in the southern Syrian town of Deraa with automatic weapons. A few weeks before he had blithely told a reporter from the Wall Street Journal that Syria would not...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Syrian activists said on Thursday they were sickened by emails which appeared to show President Bashar al-Assad and his wife shopping for pop music and luxury items while the country descended into bloodshed. Britain's Guardian newspaper said it...
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The Hindustan Times
| over 1 year ago
Twenty-three mutilated corpses were found on Thursday near a Syrian protest city seized by regime forces, monitors said, as the regime's bloody crackdown entered its second year to a rising world outcry. Human rights monitors said the victims had...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
The desertions are in addition to 40,000 military personnel who left before Feb. 20, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with government rules. The Syrian armed forces have a strength of 295,000 active personnel,...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Thousands have taken to the streets of the Syrian capital Damascus to support the country's embattled leader Bashar al-Assad. The demonstration comes on the year anniversary of the anti-Assad uprising that has left scores dead and injured. The pro-...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
The Syrian regime will persist with its strategy of bombing into submission pockets of rebel resistance as it remains convinced it alone holds the key to resolving a crisis now entering a second year, analysts said. "The regime believes that the...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Osseiri said the Saudi Red Crescent would cooperate with Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan in their relief efforts to aid thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled violence in their home country, a pan-Arab newspaper...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Huge crowds rallied in cities across Syria on Thursday in support of President Bashar al-Assad "to make the world hear our voice" on the first anniversary of a deadly anti-regime revolt. State television showed tens of thousands of people waving...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
France is opposed to calls for foreign powers to arm the opposition groups fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, fearing a descent into civil war, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Thursday. Last year, France helped arm the Libyan rebels who...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia says it has closed its embassy in Damascus and pulled out its diplomats and staff as Syrian President Bashar Assad steps up attacks against the opposition. The kingdom has become one of the leading Arab supporters of the...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Syria's deadly revolt entered a second year Thursday with the regime smashing rebel bastions and peace envoy Kofi Annan awaiting answers from Damascus before the United Nations re-enters the fray. President Bashar al-Assad's camp and the opposition...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
Syria's regime achieved a significant military victory yesterday [Wednesday], capturing the city of Idlib after a four-day assault and depriving President Bashar al-Assad's opponents of one of their strongholds. The latest military advance coincided...
