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Kuwait Times
| 12 months ago
Army shelling and gunfire killed at least 28 civilians in protest towns yesterday, a watchdog said, as Russia pushed its idea of an international conference including Iran to end the bloodshed in Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
The Syrian army killed at least 26 civilians on Saturday, with 17 dead in the flashpoint southern city of Daraa and six in the central city of Homs. Nine women and three children were among the 17 killed in a pre-dawn bombardment of a residential...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Seventeen people, including 10 women, were killed overnight by shelling in the Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted 15 months ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. Fighting was...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Russia on Saturday pushed its proposal for an international conference on Syria to include Iran, despite skepticism from the United States. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was to give details on the plan for regional players to try to...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Russia amplified its call for an international meeting on Syria on Saturday, saying sanctions or military intervention would "only aggravate the already difficult atmosphere". "Our logic is that it is not necessary now to apply additional pressure,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Leaders from the Syrian military opposition Friday called on the international community to provide better arms and support as they battle to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. As UN monitors finally reached the site of a new massacre in...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Libya or when Western-led coalitions undertook military assaults in Iraq and Serbia. Instead, the international community has come to Russia's doorstep. On Friday, a top State Department official visited Moscow, presumably seeking to persuade the...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
Washington's point man on Syria, Fredrick Hof, was expected to pressure Russia to take a harder line against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the meeting. Western leaders have called repeatedly for Assad to stand down as leader of the troubled...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Russia and the United States began talks on the Syrian conflict in a bid to narrow their differences before a meeting between their presidents, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, in Mexico this month. Fred Hof, the State Department's special envoy to...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
US officials have suggested Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent Hof to Moscow as part of an effort secure a transition strategy that the United States says must include Assad's full transfer of power. The Russian Foreign Ministry described the...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
He said this after a new massacre in Syria's central Hama province claimed 78 lives. Ban Ki-moon said that Syria could ''quickly go from tipping point to breaking point'' and made a fresh appeal for calm on all sides following the atrocity. "The...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the southern Gaza Strip, February 2, 2012. June 8 (UPI) -- Syria's Assad regime has "lost its fundamental humanity," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as Washington came close to writing off a U.N. peace plan.
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Syria pointman Fred Hof was to meet top Russian diplomats Friday in a bid to persuade Moscow to back strongman President Bashar al-Assad's removal from power. The high-stakes talks come as pressure mounts on...
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Scoop
| 12 months ago
I am Senior State Department Official on background discussing the ad hoc meeting with colleagues on Syria that the Secretary attended tonight on the margins of the counterterrorism forum tomorrow. The Secretary's message to the group included three...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
With Syria lurching closer to sectarian warfare, world leaders on Thursday sought to apply new pressure on a government that they said showed no sign of honoring cease-fire agreements or halting the slaughter of noncombatants, but they remained...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
A sober Kofi Annan all but acknowledged in New York yesterday that his peace mission in Syria is nearing collapse, but he insisted the world powers have a chance to salvage it if they overcome their divisions. "For the sake of the people of Syria who...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
Upwards of 70 people, including women and children, have been slaughtered. As with Houla, where more than 100 were killed in similarly barbaric ways, President Bashar al-Assad blames "terrorists"; his enemies blame Assad, and inexorably the pressure...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Russia would accept a Yemen-style power transition in Syria if people decided that, Russia's deputy foreign minister said yesterday, the latest statement seemingly aimed at distancing the Kremlin from President Bashar Assad. The United States is...
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Weekly Arham
| 12 months ago
Russia's continued support for the Syrian regime has been leading some Western countries to threaten military intervention even without UN Security Council authorisation, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus Some 15 months after the beginning of the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Opposition activists said up to 40 women and children were among the dead in Mazraat al-Qubeir, near Hama, on Wednesday, posting film on the Internet of bloodied or charred bodies. Confirmation will pile pressure on world powers to act, but they have...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
A regional security alliance led by China and Russia announced its opposition to outside intervention in the Syrian crisis in a joint statement released Thursday. The joint statement coincided with reports of another mass killing of civilians in...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Russia would accept a Yemen-style power transition in Syria if it were decided by the people, Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Thursday, the latest statement seemingly aimed at distancing the Kremlin from President Bashar al-Assad. The United...
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Canadian Free Press
| 12 months ago
The intra-Syrian discourse on the various social networks is marked by despair with Bashar Assad's continued rule and the uncertain future. Some 10 percent of the Syrian population for the most part secular, liberal, and from Sunni Muslim backgrounds...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 12 months ago
Yemen plan OK for Syria if backed by people Russia would accept a Yemen-style power transition in Syria if were decided by the people, a senior Russian diplomat said on Thursday, the latest in a series of statements seemingly aimed at distancing the...
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War In Context
| 12 months ago
Clinton knows better than the pundits and politicians bashing Annan that his mission is not an obstacle to more decisive action it's a product of the limited leverage and poor options available to Western powers to bring about regime change in Syria.
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday pushed for a full transfer of power in Syria from the regime of President Bashar Assad despite opposition from Russia and China. After a late-night strategy session with Arab and European foreign...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syria's main opposition group on Thursday called for stepped up military assaults against regime forces following reports of a new massacre of civilians in the central province of Hama. "The Syrian National Council calls on the [rebel] Free Syrian...
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Kansas City Star
| 12 months ago
Against the backdrop of a new massacre in Syria, international envoy Kofi Annan on Thursday will propose tasking a group of world powers and key regional players including Iran to come up with a strategy to end the 15-month conflict, U.N. diplomats...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
Russia is seeking to enlist Iran in efforts to engineer a political transition in Syria, a move that drew a hostile U.S. reaction even as the Obama administration seeks more pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Russian move comes amid...
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Toronto Star
| 12 months ago
Some of those killed in the village of Mazraat al-Qabeer were stabbed to death, the activists said, and at least 12 bodies had been burned. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said its activists on the ground documented a smaller...
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The Observer
| 12 months ago
Syrian forces have been accused of killing 100 people, including women and children, in the village of al-Qubair, near the city of Hama. Photograph: AP Syria 's government was accused on Wednesday of carrying out a new massacre in a small village...
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The Courier-Mail
| 12 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has laid out a Syria strategy calling for a full transfer of power to a transitional government, a senior state department official says. "We can't break faith with the Syrian people who want real change," said...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stood accused by opponents Thursday of a new massacre of scores of villagers, hours before the United Nations Security Council convenes again review the crisis. Share This Story If...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Wednesday 6 June 2012 With the Annan peace plan at stalemate, a badly-fragmented opposition and fierce resistance from the regime, Syria risks descending into a long and bloody civil war, analysts say. As international powers grapple for a solution...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
The United States gave its backing yesterday to the Arab League's proposal to invoke the United Nations' tough Chapter 7 sanctions against the Syrian regime. "We the United States hope that all responsible countries will soon join in taking...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
Syrian activists reported a surge of bloodshed in the central Hama province late Wednesday, with at least 23 people killed and possibly many more. The reported mass killings are likely to ignite more anger nearly two weeks after the massacre of more...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
A group of expat Syrian businessmen announced in Qatar on Wednesday the creation of a $300 million (239 million euro) fund to support the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad. Mustafa Sabbagh, chairperson of the newly created Syrian Business...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
13 The SNC said that half of $300m had already been spent, some of which were contributions to the rebel Free Syrian Army [AFP] Syrian businessmen living abroad have created a $300m fund to support rebels fighting forces of President Bashar al-Assad,...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
The U.S. treasury secretary said Washington was considering a Chapter VII resolution at the U.N. Security Council, which authorizes the use of force in Syria...Treasury Department hosted a so-called Friends of Syria working group in Washington to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan will on Thursday propose that the western powers, Russia and China form a new international group to press President Bashar al-Assad into political talks to end the deadly crisis, diplomats said. Annan could even call...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
China, Russia decisively against' Syria regime change AFP 56 mins ago Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao shakes hands during a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing, on June 6. China and...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Clinton, speaking in Azerbaijan on Wednesday before departing for a conference on Syria in Istanbul, said participants would discuss "the essential elements of a democratic transition strategy (for Syria)". "It is time for all of us to turn our...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Russia may be distancing itself from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but is sticking to its hard line that has riled the West of hostility to rebels and refusal to consider regime change by force. With President Vladimir Putin just one month into a...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Syrian President Bashar Assad tapped Agriculture Minister Riyad Farid Hijab as prime minister, tasking him with forming a new administration Wednesday. The appointment came after the Syrian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday more than a dozen Western...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 12 months ago
The FSA had granted the al-Assad regime a deadline to implement all points of the Annan initiative and cease all military operations, threatening that otherwise it would not be bound by any obligations towards UN envoy Kofi Annans peace plan.
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Moscow and Beijing on Wednesday reaffirmed their strong opposition to intervention in Syria, under mounting international pressure to change a stance that has infuriated Western powers. A joint statement issued after talks between China's leaders and...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
The Obama administration is warning Syria that U.N. sanctions may be near, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heads Wednesday to Turkey to talk strategy with America's allies and look for a way to win Russia's support for a transition plan...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
France on Wednesday denounced President Bashar al-Assad's appointment of a new prime minister as a "masquerade" that does not meet the demands of the Syrian people or the international community. "Bashar al-Assad remains stubbornly deaf to the...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Russia and China will together push forward special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday, calling for an international meeting over the conflict-torn state. We confirmed that we will coordinate our actions...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Joint UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan (L) meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) at the Great Hall of People in Beijing on March 27, 2012. (AFP/Lintao Zhang) China has stuck by the Syrian regime through nearly 15 months of bloody revolt, a...
