The Globe & Mail
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks to the new government in Damascus in this handout photo distributed by Syrian News Agency on June 26, 2012. Watch Watch Watch United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would meet...
International Business Times
Eighty-five Syrian soldiers, including one general and at least 14 other officers, fled into southern Turkey's Hatay Province Monday, Turkish news agencies reported. It was one of the largest mass military defections since the Syrian conflict began...
Arab News
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Tuesday 3 July 2012 On the surface, the Russians have not backed off from their support to the regime in Syria, and the Assad regime itself did not retreat from the military solution. The reason is that their open acceptance of...
The New York Times
Haber, said the defectors entered the town of Reyhanli as part of a group of 293 refugees fleeing atrocities in Syria . It said the defectors were placed in the Apaydin refugee camp, where there about already about 2,000 former members of the Syrian...
Scoop
As you've just heard from Special Envoy Annan, today the international community came together to endorse a plan for a democratic transition in Syria that aims to end the violence and pave the way for a post-Assad unity government. Kofi Annan called...
Scoop
So before we sat down to dinner, the two ministers spent almost an hour one-on-one talking about Syria. They were talking, first and foremost, about preparing the meeting in Geneva tomorrow. They talked through all of the remaining areas of...