The Guardian
Soldiers hold wreaths in front of the coffins of three top Syrian security advisers during their funeral in Damascus. Photograph: Sana news agency/EPA Bashar al-Assad has neither been seen nor heard in public since the bomb attack that killed four of...
Associated Press
The Assad family's grip on Syria has never looked so tenuous. After 17 months of violence and an estimated 17,000 people killed, a lightning-quick turnaround in the momentum of the civil war has put President Bashar Assad's forces on the defensive, a...
DAWN
The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously voted to give the UN observer mission in Syria a final 30-day mandate. Russia had threatened to veto a British-drafted resolution, but Russia's ambassador Vitaly Churkin finally backed the resolution...
Sydney Morning Herald
Syrians have fled to neighbouring Turkey and Lebanon in the past 24 hours as government forces used tanks and military helicopters to shell neighbourhoods in Damascus in retaliation for the opposition attack that struck at the heart of the regime of...
Sydney Morning Herald
The slender hope there could be a political settlement in this conflict was dashed on Thursday, when Moscow and Beijing used their veto power to kill a United Nations resolution that could have become the basis for a united international squeeze on...
The Age
President Bashar al-Assad had agreed to step down from power a claim strenuously denied by Syria it emerged that Wednesday's bomb attack on the heart of the regime had claimed the head of the country's security service. General Hisham Ikhtiyar is the...