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The Independent
| 1 year ago
At Mehrauli's crumbling Summer Palace, a once opulent building established by India's Moghul rulers... Questions have been raised in the past as to how ethical the practice of offering money for blood is... Public transport woes hit the streets of...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Security Council members in Geneva on Tuesday, international envoy Kofi Annan gave an alarming assessment of the situation in Syria. "I believe that the UN supervision mission is possibly the only remaining...
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Newyork Times
| 1 year ago
But he gave an otherwise bleak assessment, beseeching combatants on both sides to put down their weapons and acknowledging that his effort could fail. In a private briefing for the United Nations Security Council and at a later news conference, Mr.
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
But he gave an otherwise bleak assessment, beseeching combatants on both sides to put down their weapons and acknowledging that his effort could fail. In a private briefing for the United Nations Security Council and at a later news conference, Mr.
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan told the Security Council on Tuesday that peace in Syria remains elusive nearly a month after a nationwide truce was announced, while Washington declared it was stepping up "non-lethal" aid to the opposition.
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Syria (AP) — International envoy Kofi Annan gave a bleak assessment of the crisis in Syria on Thursday, saying violence remains at "unacceptable levels" and warning that his peace plan is the country's last chance to avert a disastrous civil war.
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
International mediator Kofi Annan said on Tuesday the world cannot allow Syria to descend into full-scale civil war and that the day may come to take a different tack than his peace plan. Annan, speaking to reporters in Geneva after briefing the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday that his top priority in violence-wracked Syria was to stop the killing to prevent the country from sliding into full-scale civil war. "The biggest priority, first of all we need to stop the killing,"...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United States is determined to increase pressure on Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to make him stand down, the US envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday. "The situation in Syria remains dire, especially for the millions who continue to...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
World powers share a "profound concern" that Syria is descending into civil war but have pledged to deploy 300 cease-fire monitors there by the end of the month, international envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday. He warned, however, that the world can't...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
The International Committee of the Red Cross chief Jakob Kellenberger says Syria's rebel movement is increasingly using guerrilla tactics in its effort to oust autocratic President Bashar al-Assad. He said rebels have shifted their types of attacks...
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PRWeb
| 1 year ago
www.syrian-expatriates.org">Syrian Expatriates condemns the storming of Aleppo University dormitories by Assad security forces, and the reportedly killing students. “At least four students have been killed after security services stormed dorms at...
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Japan Times
| 1 year ago
The failure of the Obama administration, its Western allies and several Middle East regional powers to take bolder action to stop the carnage in Syria is often explained by their fear of anarchy. Given the Syrian opposition's manifest ineffectiveness...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council on Tuesday his Syria peace plan could be the "last chance" to avoid civil war and that he fears torture and other rights violations are growing. Annan said government forces "continue to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The Romanian Senate on Tuesday ratified an extradition treaty with Syria and a bilateral agreement on cooperation against organized crime, despite criticism for dealing with a nation facing EU sanctions. "The ratification of these agreements is...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Geneva. "At least in recent weeks, you have no longer these big battles like one had in Homs in the second half of February. You have more guerrilla attacks and bomb attacks."
The distinction that this is an internal armed conflict is...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Despite a shaky truce, the carnage in Syria has not stopped even as the government held a parliamentary poll a day earlier. Damascus promoted it as a milestone on its path to reform, but the opposition slammed the election as a sham and boycotted the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
At least in recent weeks, you have no longer these big battles like one had in Homs in the second half of February...Tens of thousands of people are living in public buildings or other people's homes, and the Red Cross and Syrian Arab Red Crescent is...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syria is finding it increasingly hard to buy grain on international markets because sanctions have blocked its access to trade finance, while growing numbers of its citizens are struggling to obtain food after more than a year of conflict. The...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
The Red Cross has won permission to visit a second prison in Syria as fighting continues unchecked in some areas and 1.5 million people now struggle to meet basic needs for food, water, shelter, power and sanitation, officials said Tuesday.
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Iran said on Tuesday that parliamentary elections in Syria held by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad was a step towards reform, but expressed regret the vote was shunned by opposition groups. Foreign ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Despite the ceasefire which came into force last month, the humanitarian needs remain enormous, it says. In the latest violence, activists said two civilians died in Idlib province...On Sunday, activists said troops had killed three people in the...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Race against time' to stop all-out war in Syria: UN AFP 11 mins ago UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives for the Atlantic Council 2012 Annual Awards Dinner at a hotel in Washington on May 7. World powers are racing against time to prevent all-out...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Syrian forces Tuesday swept through a village in Edleb province, firing shells and bursts of gunfire in which two civilians were killed, while another man was shot dead by snipers in Homs, a watchdog said. The overnight military raid in Al-Tamanaa...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
International powers are "in a race against time" to prevent all-out civil war in Syria, where the government could use the presence of ceasefire observers to prepare a new assault, UN leader Ban Ki-moon has warned...Security forces are arresting and...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
The election for Syria's 250-seat parliament was planned for last year, but the vote was delayed when president Bashar al-Assad announced a series of reforms, including a new constitution. Voters turned out in relatively peaceful areas of the country,...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
Public transport woes hit the streets of over forty cities in the former Soviet Union once again as ... Earlier this year video of DJ duo Art Department playing a track with the chorus 'You and I, we are ... During a recent Foreign Office ceremony...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Forced to flee after Syrian troops burned down his home, he lives in a safe house in Turkey with Syrian army defectors in their 20s. Rahman, 40, left behind his wife and three children and $200,000 of assets, and he is penniless. He still puts on a...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syria's government said voters turned out in large numbers Monday for a parliamentary election it sees as central to its reform program. However, opposition supporters denounced the exercise as a sham and reported more fighting between rebels and...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Huge explosions have rocked two Syrian cities on Saturday, leaving several people dead, as U.N. observers continue efforts to monitor a frayed cease-fire between the government and the opposition. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says a blast...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
58 A bomb attached to a military vehicle caused destruction to nearby cars and buildings in central Damascus [EPA] Explosions have struck two cities in Syria, with reports of at least five people dead, a day after a spokesman for Kofi Annan, the UN-...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
An explosion in a car wash in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least five people on Saturday, activists said, while another blast in the capital destroyed nine cars.
Bomb attacks have grown more common in Syria's two largest...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Witnesses report nine destroyed cars in powerful blasts; no casualties yet reported; 50 out of 300 UN observers are present in Syria, but their presence has done little to halt violence. Two bombs detonated on a central Damascus highway on Saturday,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Two explosions rocked central Damascus on Saturday, a watchdog said, a day after Syrian security forces killed at least 30 civilians despite the presence of UN observers. "One bomb exploded in Ath-Thaura Street," an key commercial artery in the...
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Newyork Times
| 1 year ago
The allegiances in Aleppo have been closely monitored by experts on Syrian politics because it has remained a source of support for President Bashar al-Assad during the 14-month-old uprising against him, even as other major cities, including Homs,...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syrian children hold placards reading, "This is my house..Where I will live?" (R), "Where is the world's conscience? Syrian forces fired on thousands of protesters Friday in Aleppo, killing a teenager, after a raid on dormitories at the city's main...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Thousands of Syrians rallied yesterday, braving regime gunfire to show their determination to oust Bashar al-Assad, as the office of international envoy Kofi Annan said his peace plan is on track. The demonstrations came as forces cracking down on...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
According to UN estimations, the year-long onslaught of the Syrian regime has so far killed more than 8000 people in the country. May 4 (UPI) -- The cease-fire in Syria shows some small signs of success and appears to be on track, a spokesman for U.N.
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
As corpses pile up in Syrian morgues, U.S. and European diplomats are growing increasingly skeptical that a U.N.-backed peace plan has a chance of ending more than a year of violence that has brought Syria to the brink of civil war. But with Russia...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Deraa May 4, 2012. Syrian forces killed at least five people on Friday when they fired at demonstrations calling for the downfall of President Bashar al-...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Unrest picked up again Friday in Syria, with large opposition demonstrations reported in Homs, Hama and other opposition strongholds, as well as by ethnic Kurdish protesters in Qamishli. Rights activists said government forces killed at least 10...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Syrian forces opened fire on thousands of protesters in Aleppo Friday, killing a teenager, after a raid on dormitories at the city's main university killed four students and forced the closure of the state-run school.
An Aleppo-based...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Security forces opened fire on anti-regime protests in various parts of Syria on Friday, as people took to the streets in their thousands to call for regime change, a rights watchdog said. Government forces used gunfire to disperse demonstrators in...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
At least 18 people were killed, including six in Idlib, three in Homs and four in Aleppo, where security forces had clashed with students a day earlier, according to the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria. Three of the victims died...
